168 Good Performance Quotes

Following is our list of good performance quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about good performance at work.

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Famous Good Performance Quotes

Performance matters because games are built on great performance. — Jensen Huang

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. - Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. — Mae West

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. — John Ousterhout

What is done well is done quickly enough. — Augustus

Proper preparation prevents poor performance. — Charlie Batch

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. — William Dean Howells

Well done is better than well said. — Benjamin Franklin

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. — Brian Tracy

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. — Don King

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. — Sandy Koufax

Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity! — Brian Tracy

Hardware works best when it matters the least. - Norman Ralph Augustine

Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. — Patrice Motsepe

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance. — Woody Hayes

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all. — Ayrton Senna

Short Good Performance Quotes

  • actions speak louder than words — Becca Fitzpatrick
  • High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Jack Kinder
  • Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. — Eric Butterworth
  • We have very high standards and it works. Our business is wonderful as a result. — Jim Simons
  • Accuracy builds credibility. — Jim Rohn
  • Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. — Ken Olsen
  • Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — John W. Gardner
  • A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right. — Joel Osteen
  • Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. — Adnan Kashoggi

Top 10 Good Performance Quotes

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. — Ted Williams

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel. — Benedict of Nursia

Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible. — Oliver Burkeman

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. — James Clear

Focusing on results might be good for short-term performance but it can be an obstacle to long-term learning. — Adam Grant

When one comes to comfort a young widow, he does not mean to perform a good deed. — Yiddish Proverbs

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day. — Jurgen Klopp

Ultimately, investors are - are only as good as their track records. — Bill Ackman

Good Performance Image Quotes

Good performance quote The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anyt
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Very Good Performance Quotes

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform. — Florence Welch

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful. — Miranda Leek

Good performance quote Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances. — Ethan Hawke

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things. — Edmund Hillary

It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated. — Eva Green

Good performance quote Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.' — Venus Williams

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers. — Mario Bunge

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance. — David Cook

Good Job Performance Quotes

It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too. — Kalki Koechlin

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. — Spike Lee

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all. — Vince Lombardi

Good performance quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself. — Dave Heineman

My job is to put on a great performance. Every time I step in the ring, my job is to perform at top level and to give the people, give the crowd, give the audience what they came to see and that is a good show and, of course, everybody wants to see knockouts and that's what I like to do. — Anthony Macias

I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field. — Nicolas Cage

Good performance quote Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.

All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up. — Jennifer Lopez

If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night. — Cyrus Chestnut

Appreciation Quotes

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard

Good performance quote Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not w
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James

To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is. — J. Cole

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. — Omar Khayyam

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius

Congratulations Quotes

Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby. — Harry Caray

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Harold Geneen

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Good performance quote Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Failure is success if we learn from it. — Malcolm Forbes

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. — Tony Robbins

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein

Good performance quote There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. — Elizabeth Taylor

Great Performance Quotes

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. — David Wilkerson

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. — Brother Lawrence

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. — William Shakespeare

Good performance quote You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter Drucker

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. — Swami Vivekananda

Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business and having a high-performing body. — Lewis Howes

Good performance quote No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. — Tim Grover

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. — Holger Czukay

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. — Lisa Alther

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant

Excellent Performance Quotes

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. — William Raspberry

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle

Good performance quote Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence. — Marcus Buckingham

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over. — Jay-Z

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day — Brian Tracy

For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform. — Ricardo Semler

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work. — Michael Faraday

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence. — Ken Robinson

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker

Bad Performance Quotes

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash. - Mary Lou Retton

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash. — Mary Lou Retton

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one. — Jurgen Klopp

No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance. — Billie Jean King

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever. — Gwen Stefani

There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad. — Alexey Brodovitch

Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results. — Sam Altman

People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you’re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character. — Mark Sutton

If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in their good times in the future too. — Vijay Kedia

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. — Charles Spurgeon

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows. — John C. Bogle

Outstanding Performance Quotes

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined. — Daniel Goleman

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi' — Satyajit Ray

A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries. — Francois Hollande

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. — Major Taylor

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967. — Betty Lynn

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details. — Gary Ryan

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery. — Sayings

I'm sure that Zhang Lanxin could be an outstanding action movie actress. For one thing, she wouldn't require a stand-in. As for Yao Xingtong, she might be an excellent action performer in her next life. — Jackie Chan

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way. — Jack Kirby

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc. — Bill Vaughan

Good Result Quotes

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain

"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty." — Oscar Romero

I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death. — Sonny Barger

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. — Robert Anton Wilson

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. — Ellen Ochoa

I think there will be good results if you believe in yourself and work hard. Cheer up, we’re rooting for you guys. — Lisa Manoban

My smiles don't result from good things, they result in good things. — Mike Posner

Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience. — Johnnie Johnson

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough. — David Luiz

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. — Georges Courteline

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More Good Performance Quotes

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. — George Washington

Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field. — Aaron Rodgers

I actually was a good student, but I never applied myself 'cause I was always like, 'I don't love doing this.' I wasn't passionate about school. I always got a B just to pass. But what's crazy is I got a 29 on my ACT test without even studying. So I was always, like, just smart - but never really cared. — Jake Paul

Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time. — Bradley Joseph

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing. — Leo Tolstoy

Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance. — Eddie Izzard

I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.' — Gerald Asher

The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right. — Tony Iommi

The desire to be good to all with no restrictions - not in the quantity of those to whom we are good nor in the quality of the good we perform - that is the inner nucleus of the essence of the soul of Israel. — Abraham Isaac Kook

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.' — Timothy Keller

Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all — John Calvin

Everything good in life requires good sleep: good relationships, good mood, good athletic or academic performance, good mental health…I’d go so far as to say that good sleep is the foundation for getting anything you want in life. — Mark Burhenne

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion. — Sayings

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics. — Suzanne Yoculan

A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit. — Andy Stanley

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. — John Kennedy Toole

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens? — Paul Wellstone

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles. — Gertrude Stein

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. — Frank Shorter

You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason. — Joe Walsh

Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. — Aristotle

Follow your dreams, transform your life, take the path that leads to God. Perform your miracles. Cure. Make prophecies. Listen to your guardian angel. Transform yourself. Be a warrior, and be happy as you wage the good fight. Take risks. — Paulo Coelho

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. — Gordon B. Hinckley

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. — Luciano Pavarotti

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. — Black Elk

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. — Johnny Cash

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it. — Harry Vardon

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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