| "Never promise more than you can perform." »Publilius Syrus |
| "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities." »Publius Celsus |
| "You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." »Alfred North Whitehead |
| "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." »Andr Dubus |
| "Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax." »Dianne Hales |
| "To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." »Theodore Harold White |
| "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." »Doug Larson |
| "perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach." »William Ellery Channing |
| "Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best." »Michael Johnson |
| "Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically." »L. M. K. Boelter |
| "God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER." »Dr. Dale E. Turner |
| "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." »Unknown |
| "Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions." »Martin Luther |
| "When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." »Josiah Quincy |
| "For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us That Love caused Him to do something about our situation. God is rich in mercy, so He made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. God acted on His Love for us and saved us by His Grace Grace is the result of the actions of His Love. The remarkable thing about His Grace is that He didn't ask us to do anything but believe Him. God didn't ask us to perform some great deed. He didn't demand obedience from us before He would save us. God made us alive with Christ 'even when we were dead in transgressions and sins.' God is showing the universe 'the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.' (Ephesians 27) God was Kind to us 'in' Christ because He Loved us." »Mark McGee |
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