Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

Paul Graham

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wooden, John

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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