Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Wooden, John

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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 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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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Faulkner, William

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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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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Moore, Grace

28.

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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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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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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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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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 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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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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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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Pitts, Earl

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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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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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Pollard, John G.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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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 first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Edison, Thomas A.