Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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.

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

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

Whitton, Charlotte

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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.

Everett, Douglas

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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