Quotes about Capability

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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.

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

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

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.