Motivational Quotes

Ability

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Ability

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

Faulkner, William

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Washington, Booker T.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Thoreau, Henry David

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Half, Robert

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

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Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.

Paul Graham

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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

Paul Graham

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A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

Somerville, Thomas

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The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Ford, Henry

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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehrer

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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Wonder, Stevie

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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.

Chambers, Oswald

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Hamilton, Gail

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The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.

David Nicholls

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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]

Balfour, Arthur James

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Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

Lemieux, Mario

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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Holmes, John Andrew

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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Wooden, John

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I add this, that rational ability without education has more often raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Hubbard, Kin

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You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Ziglar, Zig

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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whitton, Charlotte

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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Pollard, John G.

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Ruskin, John

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Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Faunce, Corporal John

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw