Performance Quotes

They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform. (William Shakespeare)
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. View quote
William O. Douglas
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. View quote
Marvin Bower
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. View quote
Peter Drucker
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them. View quote
Harold Geneen
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. View quote
Michelle Obama
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style. View quote
Derek Walcott
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
All you owe the public is a good performance. View quote
Humphrey Bogart
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. View quote
Mae West
I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company. View quote
Indra Nooyi
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. View quote
Jane Austen
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. (Malcolm X)
For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods. View quote
Vitruvius
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. View quote
Martha Graham
In order to change a way of thinking, it is necessary to undergo profound internal changes and to witness profound external changes, especially in the performance of our duties and obligations to society. View quote
Che Guevara
Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements. View quote
Herbert Marcuse