130 Quotes About Competence

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

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

It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.

The natural consequence of diligence and persistence is competence and success.

When we are asked to act, we do so only if we feel at least minimally competent to do what is asked of us. We need to feel that our actions will ultimately be successful. Without some expectation of success, we are unlikely to act at all and will rather resign ourselves to letting fate take its course. We often redirect our thinking from our actual goals to the goal of preserving a sense of our competence. This act of self-protection is essential to maintaining a minimum capacity to act.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Our competence to excel in life depends on our ability to do what we can do.

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

Men with merit need to be rewarded, but men without merit need not be insulted.