Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Performance

One body cannot perform two services.
Chinese Proverb

Too aim is not enough, you must hit!
German Proverb

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American Architect

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
Stephen Sondheim (b.1930) American Musician, Composer, Songwriter

Slumps are like a soft bed. They’re easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench (b.1947) American Sportsperson

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston American Self-Help Author

I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) American Baseball Player

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating – these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.
Jeremiah Brown Howell

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic

Never step over one duty to perform another.
English Proverb

Performance, and performance alone, dictates the predator in any food chain.
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You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
Chuck Yeager (1923–2020) American Test Pilot, Air Force Officer

Perform good deeds; you will not regret them.
Moroccan Proverb

There is nothing in all the world so satisfying as a task well done. There is no reward so pleasing as that which comes with the mastery of a difficult problem.
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) American Mormon Religious Leader

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
Harold S. Geneen (1910–1997) British-American Businessman

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno (1926–2012) American Sportsperson

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
Sam Snead (1912–2002) American Professional Golfer

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.
Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Arnold Palmer (b.1929) American Sportsperson

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams (1902–84) American Photographer

People say to me, “You were a roaring success. How did you do it?” I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make something happen.
Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American Businessperson

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