Quotations about

Capability

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

—C. S. Lewis

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

—Thomas A. Edison

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding overman's capacity for evil.

—David Sarnoff

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

—Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph

When one must, one can.

—Charlotte Whitton