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Orison Swett Marden was an American author and motivational speaker, born in 1850 and died in 1924. His works primarily revolve around the themes of personal growth, success, and self-improvement, which have been well-received by readers.

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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 follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.”

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

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Book:Exceptional Employee

Source: Exceptional Employee

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

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“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.”

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“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. This is success, and there is no other.”

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Book:Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

“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.”

Mind Hands Quality Bears Excellence Superiors Stamps Hallmark Make Up Your Mind

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“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.”

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Book:Do It to a Finish!

Source: Do It to a Finish!

“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. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.”

Source: Do It to a Finish!

“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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Book:The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden

Source: The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden

“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.”

Littles Can Do Excellence Superiority

Author:Orison Swett Marden

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

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Book: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

Source: 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

“Doing common things uncommonly well.”

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Author:Orison Swett Marden

“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 the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.”

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Book:An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success

Source: An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success