Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Wonder, Stevie

Best Quotes about Ability

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Ability without honor is useless.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Pollard, John G.

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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 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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Faulkner, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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 add this, that rational ability without education has more often raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability

Cicero, Marcus T.