Quotes about Capability

Before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That's one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can't give something you don't have. You can't tell what you don't know. You can't share what you don't feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

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.

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

Happiness is the full use of one's talents along lines of excellence.

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

It belongs not unto my present purpose to declare the nature of that inheritance whereof the Holy Spirit is the earnest; in brief, it is the highest participation with Christ in that glory and honour that our natures are capable of.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

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

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

One who has great wisdom has great power.