Competent Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able. — Sanaya Roman

Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men. — Katie Couric

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning. — Brian Tracy

Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken. — Syed Ather

I don't claim to be the best musician. If being the best means I earn the right to look down on people and critique their accomplishments in defense of my own, I don't ever want to be. People can say what they want about my music being 'banal' and my skill level 'competent,' and it will hurt my feelings (because despite what some believe, I do still have them), but I won't let it determine my self-worth. — Lindsey Stirling

This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao). — Lao-Tzu

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. — Roger Ascham

What I've always insisted on from myself is to do as well as I could, and keep doing better until I'm at least competent. Long ago I learned that to achieve anything, one must start where one stands. Or spend eternity waiting for the right moment. Which never comes. — Victor Milan

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation. — William James

When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately. — Chris Hadfield

Life is not about being complacent, its all about being competent. — Chandan Sharma

What is new is that we know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time. As far as I can tell, that is the intent and purpose of television news. We see so much, understand so little, and are simultaneously told so much about What We Think, as a populace polled minute by minute, that is begins to feel like an extraneous effort to listen at all to our hearts. — Barbara Kingsolver

Everyone has a story to tell but only a few of those who are competent with a gift and drive to master it into a black and white masterpiece and those people are called ghost writers. — Euginia Herlihy

I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood. — Peter Watts

You can't write if you can't relate. — Beck

In every moment of the day, in the middle of any day, I can become newly engaged with the world. Newly competent. There's so much to discover! I can still become something I am not. — Sharman Apt Russell

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious. — Joyce Brothers

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. — Billy Joel

Go nowhere on a horse that fades. — Tanith Lee

The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
And Nature must obey necessity. — William Shakespeare

Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers? — Larry Correia