Motivational Quotes

Ability

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

- Livy, Titus

Best Quotes about Ability

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Christie, Agatha

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

Paul Graham

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

George Bernard Shaw

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test.

Daniel Akst

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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

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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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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 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.

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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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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I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Garth, Jennie

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

Pitts, Earl

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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Newman, John Henry

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Temple, Sir William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.