“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”

Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American science fiction writer and editor

“It's never crowded along the extra mile”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“You achieve great results through discipline, perseverance, and going the extra mile.”

Vladimer Botsvadze

“A sip of wine, a cigarette,
And then it’s time to go.
I tidied up the kitchenette;
I tuned the old banjo.
I’m wanted at the traffic-jam.
They’re saving me a seat.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!”

Richard Quest (1962) English television journalist

“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.”

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

“I like the people who go the extra mile to find something more individual, with more integrity, than the stuff you get in the charts.”

Mixmaster Morris (1965) English ambient DJ