Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Wooden, John

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.

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

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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

Faulkner, William

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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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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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 without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Somerville, Thomas

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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 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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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

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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.

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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Newman, John Henry

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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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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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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

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.