ABILITY/SKILL/COMPETENCE/INTELLIGENCE
1. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~Robert A. Heinlein
2. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. ~John J. Pershing
3. A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters
4. Ability without honor is useless. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
5. Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours. ~Richard Bach
6. Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ~Andrew Creighton
7. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale
8. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. ~Unknown
9. Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire
11. Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~Laurence J. Peter
12. Continuous effort ~ not strength or intelligence ~ is the key to unlocking our potential. ~Liane Cordes
13. Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. ~Orison Swett Marden
14. Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. ~Lowell Thomas
15. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. ~Phillips Brooks
16. Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden
17. Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. ~John Wooden
18. Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ~Bruce Lee
19. Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop~valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. ~Charles M Schwab
20. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! ~Anne Frank
21. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! ~Anne Frank
22. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~Erica Jong
23. Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ~Laurence J. Peter
24. Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ~Allan Bloom
25. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~Booker T. Washington
26. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ~Seneca
27. For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. ~Lao-Tzu
28. God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ~Unknown
29. Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ~Plato
30. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. ~Henry Ward Beecher
31. Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ~Robert Half
32. Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability. ~Qaisar Iqbal Janjua
33. He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ~Ben Jonson
34. Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ~Benjamin Franklin
35. Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ~Peace Pilgrim
36. I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. ~Bruce Jenner
37. I believe that every person is born with talent. ~Maya Angelou
38. I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom. ~Les Brown
39. I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. ~Lou Holtz
40. I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. ~William DeMille
41. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain
42. If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow. ~T. Richard Chase
43. If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ~Emerson M. Pugh
44. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton
45. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most; it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing. ~Pablo Casals
46. In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the stature of true potential. ~Thomas S. Monson
47. Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. ~Stephen Covey
48. Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. ~Stephen Covey
49. It is a denial of the divinity within us to deny our potential and possibilities. ~James E. Faust
50. It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God ~Mary Daly
51. It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. ~Unknown
52. It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~ Philip Adams
53. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
54. Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~William Shakespeare
55. Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce
56. Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
57. More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. ~Hyman G. Rickover
58. Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. ~William James
59. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
60. Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
61. No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination. ~Colette Bowe
62. No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. ~James T Mccay
63. Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
64. Our aspirations are our possibilities. ~Robert Browning
65. Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. ~Orison Swett Marden
66. People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
67. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~George Bernard Shaw
68. Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. ~George Scialabra
69. Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. ~Anthony Robbins
70. Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. ~Peggy Noonan
71. Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ~Jonathan Swift
72. The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~Aldous Huxley
73. The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering
74. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. ~Mahatma Gandhi
75. The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. ~Ben Herbster
76. The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ~Laurence J. Peter
77. The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. ~Calvin Coolidge
78. The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try. ~Leonardo Ruiz
79. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. ~Les Brown
80. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ~Arthur C Clarke
81. The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe. ~ Napolean Hill
82. The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ~Brian Tracy
83. The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ~Brian Tracy
84. The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
85. The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ~ Confucius
86. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
87. The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience. ~Les Brown Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is! ~Anne Frank
88. The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men. ~Allen Claxton
89. The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men. ~Allen E. Claxton
90. The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ~George Leonard
91. The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. ~Booker T. Washington
92. There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. It all depends on me. ~Andre Gide
93. There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man~made rules that are not founded on principle. ~Ralph Waldo Trine
94. There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. ~Henry Ford
95. There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. ~Henry Ford
96. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold
97. There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ~Robert Half
98. These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. ~Walter Benjamin
99. They are able because they think they are able. ~Virgil
100. They are able who think they are able. ~Virgil
101. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ~Dr. Seuss
102. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Gothe
103. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~Isaac Asimov
104. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. ~Dale Carnegie
105. We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable. ~Jack Schwartz
106. We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson
107. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~Albert Einstein
108. What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud
109. Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential. ~Tony Buzan
110. When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible. ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
111. Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage — in every thought and deed. ~Russell M. Nelson
112. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through~out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self~fulfillment, and it can do the same for you. ~Brian Tracy
113. You have to think big to be big. ~Claude M. Bristol
114. Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress. ~Harry J Johnson
115. Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. ~Marilyn Ferguson