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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Tomorrow, Living

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Opinion, Office

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

Trying, Put, Place

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

Good, Great, Character

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu

Nature, May, Another

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Zig Ziglar

Yourself, Cannot, Winner

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Zig Ziglar

Yourself, Cannot, Manner

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian Tracy

Car, Feelings, Thoughts

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther

Fail, Actions, Righteous

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quite, Task, Sides

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

Age, Today, Philosophy

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

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Promise, Hopes, Fears

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham

Faith, Again, Means

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White

Great, True, Before

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper

God, Storm, Sea

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Important, Thinking, Number

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham

Great, May, Whether

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Success, Confidence, Honesty

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar N. Bradley

Death, Bravery, Scared

When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
Maria Sharapova

Good, Best, Important

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson

Computers, Home, Dog

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
Henry Rollins

Love, Good, Giving

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
Henry Rollins

Hard, Trying, Comedy

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
Brian Eno

Learning, Whole, Engineers

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Homer

Wise, Patient, Resolve

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Tallulah Bankhead

Education, Great, Service

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

Promise, Rarely, Constantly

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Kanye West

Life, God, Pain

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andre Dubus III

Important, Strange, Belief

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