Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Competence Quotes

Competence Skill Success Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Charlotte Whitton

Communication Competence Confidence Preparation Responsibility Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.

Katherine Johnson

Mathematician and NASA scientist

Competence Leadership Quality It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Anthony Hopkins

Competence Confidence Excellence I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.

David Bowie

Competence Knowledge Rationality The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist and Essayist

Competence Effectiveness Problem Solving Wisdom There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche