Motivational Quotes

Ability

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Ability

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.

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

Half, Robert

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

Newman, John Henry

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

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

Pollard, John G.

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Wonder, Stevie

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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ford, Henry

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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