Capability Quotes

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

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

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Capability means imagination.

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

We are all capable of much more than we think we are.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;If it be man's work, I'll do't.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.