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Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

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Effort, Excellence, Progression

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.

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Hands, Giving, Excellence
Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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 superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

Orison Swett Marden
Hands, Mind, Excellence

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Orison Swett Marden
Effort, Excellence, Tasks

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 lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Orison Swett Marden
Trust, Hands, Excellence

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Orison Swett Marden
Men, Excellence, Common
Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

Orison Swett Marden
Excellence, Littles, Can Do
"Exceptional Employee".

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden
Differences, Excellence, Mediocrity
Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.125

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Orison Swett Marden
Excellence, Common, Wells

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Orison Swett Marden
Motivational, Nature, Excellence
Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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