Capacity Quote by Samuel Smiles

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity…

— R. H. Tawney

That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest…

— Charles Babbage

“But exceptional performance depends not only on the groundwork we lay through Deliberate Practice; it also requires the right working conditions. And in contemporary…

— Susan Cain

“The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.”

— Anonymous

The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge…

— Marshall McLuhan

Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of…

— Joshua Reynolds

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion…

— Samuel Butler

To stay attractive and competitive, the U.K. should take measures to ensure that skilled talent keeps flowing in and out the country.

— Alain Dehaze

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

— Samuel Richardson

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by…

— John Knox

“Excellence comes from an internal standard that asks, “How can I deliver beyond what’s expected?”

— Brendon Burchard

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

— Samuel Richardson