Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few...

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them...

What’ll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?” demanded Miss Haydock.”Well, Eve — it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only...

Have faith in your abilities.

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves, discouraging themselves from doing what they should have been excelling in. If you are good at discouraging yourself, you can’t be a good...

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past … entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the “problem” of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both...

Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works

To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we discover that humans lack. Obviously, if animals were included in the Olympics, humans...

Do you know how to pick a lock?””Not in the least, I’m afraid.””I often wonder what we go to school for,” said Wimsey.

We need more love, to supersede hatred, —We need more strength, to resist our weaknesses, —We need more inspiration, to lighten up our inner mind. —We need more learning, to erase our ignorance, —We need...

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.

Intentions alone amount to nought. It’s in action, not inaction that we can become all we can be

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much...

Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you’d believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.

Have faith in God and your abilities. You can make a difference in the world.

The most common mistake you’ll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an...

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of...

Capability can handle challenges, it doesn’t accept charity.

As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways.””My angelic side. Great. Like I don’t have enough to deal with.””It’s not so bad,” Mom says. “You’ll...

Quoting Samuel Johnson: “Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women...

You are your abilities and they are you. I can’t put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It’s a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It’s...

Courage, will-power and confidence in your abilities will carry you to greater heights.

One does not suffer nearly so much from one’s inadequacies as from one’s unused abilities.

Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn’t taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and...

System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability.

Be responsible. Your abilities ensure that you respond to the responsibilities that you encounter daily.

Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change … the shriek of unused capacities.