Top 150 Performance Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Motivation is motive in action.”

— Denis Waitley

52. “If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You’re 100% better.”

— Ken Carter

53. “I defy you, stars.”

— William Shakespeare

54. “If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.”

— Kobe Bryant

55. “Be quick, but don't hurry.”

— John Wooden

56. “Without standards, there can be no improvement.”

— Taiichi Ohno

57. “Everything is practice.”

— Pelé

58. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Thomas A. Edison

59. “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play well. If you play well, they pay well.”

— Deion Sanders

60. “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”

— W. Edwards Deming

61. “The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.”

— Ed Seykota

62. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

63. “If you try your best, you can always be better.”

— Nonito Donaire

64. “If you can’t measure it, you probably can’t manage it. Things you measure tend to improve.”

— Ed Seykota

65. “Working together is success.”

— Henry Ford

66. “A vision and strategy aren’t enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.”

— Richard M. Kovacevich

67. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.”

— Jocko Willink

68. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

69. “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”

— Peter F. Drucker

70. “Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.”

— Bill Belichick

71. “Don’t go to work to work, go to work to prosper.”

— Grant Cardone

72. “Nothing negatively impacts organisation performance quicker than an employee who resists change and who believes that the way they work today is the way they will work tomorrow.”

— Peter F Gallagher

73. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

74. “If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.”

— Michael Phelps

75. “Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.”

— Ray Dalio

76. “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”

— Patrick Lencioni

77. “Success is in the details.”

— Zig Ziglar

78. “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.”

— Lord Kelvin

79. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

80. “The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”

— Napoleon Hill

81. “Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.”

— Tim Ferriss

82. “Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.”

— Tim Ferriss

83. “Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”

— Sanford Meisner

84. “This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name.”

— Mike Shinoda

85. “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

— Napoleon Hill

86. “If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.”

— Ayrton Senna

87. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”

— Bobby Unser

88. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”

— Zig Ziglar

89. “Until our mission becomes our obsession, we’ll be chained to the realm of average.”

— Robin S. Sharma

90. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

— Timothy Gallwey

91. “We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.”

— Tony Robbins

92. “Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.”

— Augusto Boal

93. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

— Andrew Carnegie

94. “If you think you’re perfect already, then you never will be.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

95. “The path of least resistance will never make you proud.”

— Tony Robbins

96. “Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive, persistent and intelligent practice.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

97. “Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.”

— Tim Ferriss

98. “It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!”

— Jim George

99. “Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee’s for closers only.”

— David Mamet

100. “Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.”

— Walt Disney