Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Pitts, Earl

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

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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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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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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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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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

41.

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

Wonder, Stevie

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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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.