Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

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

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

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 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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Wonder, Stevie

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.