Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Pollard, John G.

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.

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 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

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.

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

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

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

Half, Robert

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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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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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.

Hamilton, Gail

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Faulkner, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Wooden, 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