Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Pitts, Earl

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whitton, Charlotte

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Faunce, Corporal John

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

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

18.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

19.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

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

Ford, Henry

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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

29.

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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

32.

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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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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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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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 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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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew