Incompetent Quotes

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Never give up.
- Anonymous

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie