Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

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

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.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pitts, Earl

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

Half, Robert

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

18.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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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.

35.

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wooden, John

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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 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 will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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.