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
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. - Aristotle
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. - Mae West
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance. - Samuel Johnson
Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. - Paul J. Meyer
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul. - Niccolo Machiavelli
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
Do the thing and you will have the power - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. - Blaine Lee * Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. - Seneca
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every one know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. - James A. Garfield
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. - Elie Wiesel
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. - Baltasar Gracian
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. - Blaise Pascal