“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，我将一定取得所需要的能力，即便一开始我可能没有。」– 甘地 (政治家)
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”
「我们做的愈多，能做的就愈多；我们愈忙，就有愈多的悠闲。」– 威廉‧哈兹列特 (评论家)
“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”
「确保航行成功取决于有技巧的驾驭而不是船支本身。」– 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.”
「只因你的能力无法完成一项任务，不要认为它就超出人类的能力范围；如果有任何事是人的能力所及，相信它也在你的能力范围内。」– 马尔库斯‧奥列里乌斯 (罗马帝王)
“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.”
「我不觉得我必须相信，赋予我们知觉、理智及智力的神，希望我们放弃使用这些能力，并透过其它方式给予我们知识，而不是让我们以这些能力自行取得。」– 伽利略‧伽利莱 (天文学家)
“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.”
「一个人的能力与心灵不可能不同调，如果他的心灵有条理、认真且严谨，他的能力也一定不错且明智。相反的，当其中一方沉伦，另一方也会被玷污。」– 塞内卡 (哲学家)
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
「不要以你达成什么来衡量自己，而是以你的能力你应该达成什么来衡量自己。」– 约翰．伍登 (篮球教练)
