Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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

Newman, John Henry

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

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Ziglar, Zig

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pollard, John G.

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Chambers, Oswald

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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