Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Half, Robert

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.

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Faulkner, William

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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis 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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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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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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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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wonder, Stevie

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Pollard, John G.

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Ability without honor is useless.