Quotes About Capability

Here's something I heard recently: men move toward whatever makes them feel competent. As soon as I heard that I knew it was true. Every man I know migrates toward something that makes him feel powerful and in control.

veryone is capable of learning; the trick is knowing what you need to learn.

Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this.

I'm a grown woman, and I can fend for myself. Now help me put on my pants.

Excuse me," Kira said. "I am perfectly capable of getting myself into a mess. Isn't that what the Senior Mechanics tried to say about my mother? That someone else was leading her astray? I'm in this mess because of my decisions.

If you don't exercise a talent, you get rusty

If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen.

Self-reliant men, capable of extreme violence in defense of their lives, their families, and of freedom makes some people nervous.

the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it,

The vast majority of us are far more capable than we realize. We grow up with parents, teachers, bosses all telling us what we can't do. Don't touch it; you'll break it. They mean well, but they leave us with a sense of our own incapacity. When the day comes, if it comes, that you begin to believe in yourself, the world will be yours. —Mara

The vast majority of us are far more capable than we realize. We grow up with parents, teachers, bosses all telling us what we can't do. Don't touch it; you'll break it. They mean well, but they leave us with a sense of our own incapacity. When the day comes, if it comes, that you begin to believe in yourself, the world will be yours.

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better.

There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Success, prosperity, well-being happens because you have made yourself capable of creating those things.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone 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.

Because boys, and later men, regardless of their best intentions often seemed to yearn for something they just never succeeded in defining. You pitied them for it, your heart went out to them, but still there was a chronic gap between what they should be and what they were capable of being. Into that gap civilization fell.

A wise, right, and true estimate of one's own powers is necessary to their highest and best use. The general who overestimates his forces leads them to defeat; he who underestimates them does not lead them at all.

You got a power source

These are Plenimaran marines, and there's not much most of them aren't capable of, if you take my meaning." "I don't think I do," said Alec, puzzled by Seregil's tone. "Then try this. They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.' Got that?" "Oh." Alec felt his face go hot.

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it."45

Through relationship with God, man is finally capable of doing that which he was incapable of doing on his own. That's what walking in the Spirit is all about.

A good approach to something requires enough resources to handle the demands of that activity.

I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.