“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”

Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

Speaking on September 15, 1960, regarding a play that occurred the previous day: specifically, his failure to throw the ball to second base following Vernon Law's successful pickoff of Maury Wills; as quoted in "Alston Rates Wills with Robinson" http://www.mediafire.com/view/l45legblbwjhk2u by Frank Finch, in Los Angeles Times (September 16, 1960), p. 76

Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Friendship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series

Source: This is Where I Leave You

1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
Context: Let us, as we value our own self-respect, face the responsibilities with proper seriousness, courage, and high resolve. We must demand the highest order of integrity and ability in our public men who are to grapple with these new problems. We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources. Of course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.

Kiichiro Toyoda (1945), quoted in: Kazuo Sato (2010), The Anatomy of Japanese Business, p. 135

Source: Competing on the Edge, 1998, p. 135