“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
「如果我相信自己做的到，我將一定取得所需要的能力，即便一開始我可能沒有。」– 甘地 (政治家)
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”
「我們做的愈多，能做的就愈多；我們愈忙，就有愈多的悠閒。」– 威廉‧哈茲列特 (評論家)
“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”
「確保航行成功取決於有技巧的駕馭而不是船支本身。」– 寇蒂斯 (作家)
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
「只因你的能力無法完成一項任務，不要認為它就超出人類的能力範圍；如果有任何事是人的能力所及，相信它也在你的能力範圍內。」– 馬爾庫斯‧奧列里烏斯 (羅馬帝王)
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”
「我不覺得我必須相信，賦予我們知覺、理智及智力的神，希望我們放棄使用這些能力，並透過其它方式給予我們知識，而不是讓我們以這些能力自行取得。」– 伽利略‧伽利萊 (天文學家)
“A man’s ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.”
「一個人的能力與心靈不可能不同調，如果他的心靈有條理、認真且嚴謹，他的能力也一定不錯且明智。相反的，當其中一方沉倫，另一方也會被玷污。」– 塞內卡 (哲學家)
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
「不要以你達成什麼來衡量自己，而是以你的能力你應該達成什麼來衡量自己。」– 約翰．伍登 (籃球教練)
