Competent

Competent

COMPETENT, adjective
1. Suitable; fit; convenient; hence, sufficient, that is, fit for the purpose; adequate; followed by to; as, competent supplies of food and clothing; a competent force; an army competent to the preservation of the kingdom or state; a competent knowledge of the world. This word usually implies a moderate supply, a sufficiency without superfluity.
2. Qualified; fit; having legal capacity or power; as a competent judge or court; a competent witness. In a judge or court, it implies right or authority to hear and determine; in a witness, it implies a legal right or capacity to testify.
3. Incident; belonging; having adequate power or right.
That is the privilege of the infinite author of things, who never slumbers nor sleeps, but is not competent to any finite being.
It is not competent to the defendant to alledge fraud in the plaintiff.




SCRIPTURES/QUOTES:


“The older generation has been raised without them, but there is another generation growing up. The revelations will be opened to them as to no other in the history of the world. Into their hands now are placed the sticks of Joseph and of Judah. They will develop a gospel scholarship beyond that which their forebears could achieve. They will have the testimony that Jesus is the Christ and be competent to proclaim Him and to defend Him.”
-Boyd K. Packer




 "It is good to be faithful, but it is better to be faithful and competent."
-President Lee

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

Laurence J. Peter

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

William Glasser

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Orison Swett Marden

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

George W. S. Trow

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Douglas Fairbanks

PERSONAL DEFINITION:
Words that come to mind: Able, eligible, fit for the cause, sufficient, good, enough, equipped, ready.
I think that to be competent means to do what you do with quality, thoroughly, well.
If you do something with competence, you are not doing it half-heartedly, it is a diligent effort.
I want to be more competent in my life by getting a deeper education, and applying and living what I know to be right. Just thinking about my goals minor effort, but actually accomplishing them, and accomplishing them well, that's competence!