Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Pitts, Earl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

George Bernard Shaw

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Whitton, Charlotte

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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 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 less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wonder, Stevie

18.

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

19.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Somerville, Thomas

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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

25.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Ford, Henry

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

Newman, John Henry

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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

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Faulkner, William

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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