Capability Quote by Luc de Clapiers

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such…

— Walter Russell

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

— Evan Esar

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

— William Cobbett

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

— Honore de Balzac

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

— Albert Camus

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

— Oscar Wilde

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

— Charles Tomlinson

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

— Hosea Ballou

Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

— Richard Proenneke

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind…

— Charles M. Schwab