Competence Quotes

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.

~ Lolly Daskal

Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.

~ Lolly Daskal

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

~ Lolly Daskal

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

~ Lolly Daskal

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

~ Lolly Daskal

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

~ Lolly Daskal

Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.

~ Lolly Daskal

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

~ Lolly Daskal

Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.

~ Lolly Daskal

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

~ Lolly Daskal

Don’t let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.

~ Lolly Daskal

Your confidence kills your fears when they appear. Your competence makes them not to appear at all. Be bold, do it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

~ Thomas Hardy

Our competence comes from God's grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.Munitions Commander? Why me?I don't know. Call it suspicion of extreme competence on my part.-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn

~ Howard Tayler

In leadership, skills may take you where character won't keep you.

~ Mike Ayers

The specialty in all life is expecting the exception, while ignorant of real acceptance, until unexpectedly you re-witness your own ignorance to 'be' the cause that awakens others. One does not do this yesterday, or today. You do this with expressing honesty everyday.

~ James Emlund

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...

~ Immanuel Kant

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

~ Amit Kalantri

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share.

~ Amit Kalantri

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

~ Amit Kalantri

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid. John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

~ John Taliaferro

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.

~ Amit Kalantri

You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.

~ Luigina Sgarro

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

~ Robin Hoyle

It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of our jobs. Plus, they're easier to take care of now, so they don't bother us nearly as much when we need to do them. When we know more about our work and its ramifications, we can see the connections between what we do and the effects that those things have on other people.

~ Tom Walsh

Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.

~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

Your driver is on the steer, driving you and you can feel free to doze in the car; this is trust built on competence. Competence is to ensure that your actions put people's hearts at ease when things are in your hands.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

~ Peter Tremayne

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

~ Erik Larson

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

~ Ron Suskind

She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.

~ Lily Blackwood

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

~ Amit Kalantri

All too often people pretend to be professional. Professionalism is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

~ Richie Norton

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

~ Clifford Cohen

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

~ Flannery O'connor