Motivational Quotes

Ability

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.

Best Quotes about Ability

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.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Pitts, Earl

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

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.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Kin

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Faulkner, William

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.