Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Whitton, Charlotte

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Newman, John Henry

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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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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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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