Motivational Quotes

Ability

Just do what you do best.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Ability

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.

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

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

Half, Robert

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wooden, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

Ford, Henry

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Faulkner, William

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

Pitts, Earl

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Everett, Douglas

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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Moore, Grace

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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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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 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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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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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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