Top 100 Incompetent Quotes
#1. An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
Eraldo Banovac
#2. Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?"
"Thank you, God," Petra said.
Libba Bray
#3. Some drawings are better than others ... Some are utterly spoiled ... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing ... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.
Walter J. Phillips
#4. You wanted to show us ... a battle droid? The most incompetent droid soldier in the history of both the Republic and the Empire. A mechanical comedy of errors.
Chuck Wendig
#5. There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren
#6. Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?
Susan B. Anthony
#8. What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.
John Naughton
#9. Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.
Edmund Morris
#10. For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.
Gloria Furman
#11. Twenty Inches and Eight pounds of infant can, and undoubtedly sometimes will, reduce two or more intelligent, competent, organized adults to anxious, exhausted incompetent jellies.
Penelope Leach
#12. No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
H. Bentley Glass
#13. Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.
John Scalzi
#14. Certainly would never have made that horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran where they get $150 billion. They're a terrorist nation.
Donald Trump
#15. On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.
Larry Correia
#16. Christian growth does not involve becoming stronger and stronger, more and more competent every day. It involves becoming more and more aware of how weak and incompetent we are and how strong and competent Jesus was and continues to be for us.
Tullian Tchividjian
#17. James chuckled. "You're the worst goddess I've ever met."
"Calliope's the worst goddess you've ever met. I'm just the most incompetent.
Aimee Carter
#18. I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.
Gretchen Rubin
#19. fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.
Megan McArdle
#20. The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
John Olver
#21. On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Anyone who tells you that electricity is harmless is incompetent in the field of biologically harmful radiation exposures.
Steven Magee
#23. Somewhere around chapter seven she had started wondering if Lucinda, the annoyingly incompetent heroine of The Black Duke, truly deserved to live. The chit was forever whining about her life, while refusing to do anything about it.
Karen Hawkins
#24. Not every man in the Senate is some kind of masterful schemer, exerting all his energies to acquire more power and influence at the expense of all others." "No," Isana agreed. "Some of them are incompetent schemers.
Jim Butcher
#25. I like my friends at a functional enough level of mediocre to where I don't feel incompetent.
Veronica Larsen
#26. there would always be incompetent assholes in the world ... and many of them would be in places of power.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#27. Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
P. J. O'Rourke
#28. Yakov Mikhailovich, as we have already said, believed fervently in the power of the human intellect. There are no insoluble problems, only incompetent problem solvers.
Boris Akunin
#29. A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
Emmuska Orczy
#30. The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#31. In my opinion," said Lydgate, "legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.
George Eliot
#32. In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
Dave Matthews
#33. I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
#34. However, family and friends can be in a financial or emotional conflict of interest with the welfare of an incompetent patient.
Edmund D. Pellegrino
#35. Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
Arlen Specter
#36. Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
Jane Smiley
#37. It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.
Angela Carter
#38. I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.
Timothy Noah
#39. Thirty years of marriage to Erasto had taught her much, namely that men were reckless by nature, full of bluster, most incompetent, the rest fortunate to have a wife to keep them from allowing their innate ineptitude to engulf all around them.
A.H. Septimius
#40. The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.
Robert Baer
#41. A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
Sun Tzu
#42. Why don't you tell people what happened last night"
"You slept on the sofa!"
"And why is that?"
"Because you're ... incompetent
R.S. Burnett
#43. Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
#44. Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.
Richard Reeves
#45. For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#46. Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top" position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.
Richard J. Foster
#47. It's a law of the universe that 87 percent of all people in all professions are incompetent.
John Gardner
#48. One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
John Gardner
#49. Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.
Santoka Taneda
#50. Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.
Isabella L. Bird
#51. I don't know enough to be incompetent.
Woody Allen
#52. To proceed, I imagine life as a film being screened by an incompetent projectionist.
Matthew Belmonte
#53. To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
John Donne
#54. The modesty and diffidence that the penniless, unemployed Standish had brought aboard were now no longer to be seen; and the assurance of a monthly income and a settled position had developed a displeasing and often didactic loquacity. He was also, of course, incompetent.
Patrick O'Brian
#55. Our country is being run by incompetent people.
Donald Trump
#56. Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.
Northrop Frye
#57. I've read your summary."
"And?"
"It's not incompetent."
Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?
Ilona Andrews
#58. It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.
David Ogilvy
#59. She was furious, with the kind of fury peculiar to the nonpaying client. Those who can't afford private attorneys ... assumed legal aid was incompetent. Do-gooders were simply losers in disguise.
Laura Lippman
#60. Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
Stieg Larsson
#61. We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.
Leo Buscaglia
#62. There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.
Marilynne Robinson
#63. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
Ludwig Von Mises
#64. Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.
William Feather
#65. An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
Chris Everheart
#66. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.
Ayn Rand
#68. I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
Luke Ford
#69. I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
Neil Gaiman
#70. It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
John Taylor Gatto
#71. These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed ... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey
#72. War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
Oriana Fallaci
#73. Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do. -Jo
Nicholas Sparks
#74. Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#75. President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.
Ben Shapiro
#76. Bad judges, lousy cops, greedy lawyers, lazy prosecutors, mediocre teachers, and incompetent bureaucrats are inevitable. When they happen, they should be weeded out and sent back to school to learn something about moral courage and the Golden Rule.
Dennis McDougal
#77. Where the theologian is forced to rescue an incompetent spirit who has, for one imaginative reason or another, lost total control of his creation, the gospel of the malevolent hand stands unchaste, uncontaminated, and inviolable.
John Zande
#78. * Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.
Shiv Khera
#79. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
#80. Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. They build bridges to nowhere and tunnels to nothingness ... Those who excel in them seldom do in anything else, therefore, there are no excuses.
Frank Ocean
#81. Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
James Clerk Maxwell
#82. Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
Jared Sparks
#83. When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.
Andrew Nikiforuk
#84. She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.
Elena Ferrante
#85. Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
H. Beam Piper
#86. Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.
Victor Davis Hanson
#87. To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted
Philip Larkin
#88. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. Uncivil, incompetent in fulfilling basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned, often putting self (and reelection) before country - this was my view of the majority of the United States Congress.
Robert M. Gates
#90. The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.
Christopher S. Hyatt
#91. If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#92. I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
William Allen White
#93. It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
Susan Stebbing
#94. The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Laurence J. Peter
#95. Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
Benmont Tench
#96. I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don't care that they're ignorant and incompetent.
Tim Leffel
#97. I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous.
Ibram Gaunt
Dan Abnett
#98. In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Rupert Sheldrake
#99. [The media's] fantasy of an America bristling with racists allows them to portray any criticism of our massively incompetent and dangerous president as just another sad episode of oh-so-typical white racism.
Ann Coulter
#100. How does it feel to be one of the unwilling, doing the impossible, for the ungrateful, ordered by the ignorant, led by the incompetent?" Levine asked.
Tim Davis
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