Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Half, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

11.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Newman, John 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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

21.

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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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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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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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 less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Faulkner, William

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

George Bernard Shaw

40.

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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

43.

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

44.

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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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 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