Perform - Performance Quotes

Remember this, – that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Where performance is measured, performance improves. Where performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.

Religious Displays, as distinct from religious beliefs, are submissive acts performed towards dominant individuals called gods. The acts themselves include various forms of body-lowering, such as kneeling, bowing, kowtowing, salaaming and prostrating; also chanting and rituals of debasement and sacrifice; the offering of gifts to the gods and the making of symbolic gestures of allegiance. […]

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? (Henry IV)

Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted to him to perform, therefore he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Pressure is on us by the nature of the job. Performance releases pressure.

You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing.