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Quotes About Capability

I think my confidence and competitiveness - that will - comes from my mother. I always knew my mom loved me, and she always made me feel like I was - I don't want to say 'special' - but that I was capable of doing things. Before I ever shot a basketball or before I ever threw a baseball, I had confidence, and that was from my mother.
~ J. J. Redick
I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
~ Elaine Stritch
I just know what I'm capable of. When I don't do it, you can always throw the excuse - you're young, it's a process, this and that - but I know what I can do. Just staying patient and just keep putting in hard work and keep God first and the sky is the limit.
~ D'Angelo Russell
I was thrown into this world of training, and weightlifting, and boxing, and cardio. It's amazing to feel your body being capable of that.
~ Esme Creed-Miles
People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically.
~ David Leitch
Never feel like you have to tick all of the boxes on everything to be able to feel like you can do a job. I have heard it said many times before, and it is so true.
~ Jacinda Ardern
You are capable of more than you know. You are the right one to handle your life. And what is more, you are never alone in the journey. You have your Girls' Club around you, and more fundamentally than that, you have God. I think you have it in you to go a little bit farther.
~ Sally Clarkson
we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough
~ Samuel Butler
It is no diminution of power not to be able to do things which are no object of power.
~ Samuel Clarke
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
~ Samuel Johnson
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
~ Samuel Smiles
5 things common you should look in your investors and team members: 1) commitment, 2) chemistry, 3) comfort, 4) capability, and 5) craving.
~ Sandeep Aggarwal
It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.
~ Sara Sheridan
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
~ Julius Erving
. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it.
~ Richard G. Scott
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
~ Jared Diamond
They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.
~ Augustin Misago
So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.
~ Marian Keyes
I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Moe was a triple threat." "He could sing, dance, and act?" She shook her head. "He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag.
~ Marisha Pessl
Only the inept are always at their best.
~ Mark Evanier
A woman's power of imitation and adaptation make her capable of confronting you with your own arguments after even the briefest acquaintance: how much more so if a state of intimacy exists.
~ Anthony Powell
Porque no hay poder como el del estado de plenitud de recursos.
~ Anthony Robbins
The fight has been going on since...dominion in this world has found itself capable of sustentation by the exercise of fear as to the world to come.
~ Anthony Trollope