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Excellence Quotes by Orison Swett Marden
- People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity.…
- Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...
- Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
- Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
- Doing common things uncommonly well.
- It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just…
- There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
- Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
- There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our…
- The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him.…
- Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a…
More Excellence Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks
- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become… — Joseph Addison
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis