Extra Mile

Extra Mile: 

How exponential growth in positive and negative attitude affects, same effect be noticed in good and bad habits.

1.01 vs 0.99^365 = 37.78343433 vs 0.025517964
1.05 vs 0.95^365 = 54211841.58 vs 0.000000007398027

Extra Mile Quotes

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile.

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some people go through school as if they thought they were doing their families a favor. On a job, they work along in a humdrum way, interested only in their salary check. They don't have a goal. When anyone crosses them up, they take their marbles and walk out. The people who go places and do things make the most of every situation. They are ready for the next thing that comes along on the road to their goal. They know what they want and are willing to go an extra mile.

Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.

One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, if you like ... We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity ... So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker (a person who avoids work or effort).

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile and achieving goals with an extra MILE

A trustworthy leader goes the extra mile to remedy strained relationships, even when it doesn't appear to be required.

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

Love is about going that extra mile even it if hurts.

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

There's very few people go the extra mile, so go the extra mile and give it all you've got.

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one cheers, they feel neglected and bitter.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.

Self-Discipline, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile ... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit, it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

I write about nerds (ordinary) who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.

I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.