Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

There’s a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

Diligence Leads to Competence.

Power is competence.

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

The test of true competence is the end result.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that’s on a gold standard.

When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up

Having compassion for yourself means that you honor and accept your humanness.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

For us to feel good emotionally, we have to look after ourselves.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we’re made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.