Quotes About Capability

If [the people of the world] are incapable, as some would have us believe, of self-government, then where among them do we find any who are capable of governing others?

One of the greatest obstacles for blind children, not just in Tibet but everywhere in the world, is that they are seldom treated equally with sighted children, that they are perceived as being helpless, as somehow special and different. In families and the community beyond, very little is expected of the blind child. This reinforces in them the feeling that they are useless and incapable. Special isn't good either way.

Anything you can do, I can do meta

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.

Nothing is sexier than a competent man: I was in love.

I can tell you, she really knows her job. So do boa constrictors, said Audrey.

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

Much is said in our age about irony and humor, especially by people who have never been capable of engaging in the practice of these arts, but who nevertheless know how to explain everything.

We underestimate our fellow humans because we underestimate ourselves. They - we - are capable of being much more than we seem

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

I believe that every person is born with talent.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.