Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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.

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.

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 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

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

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

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

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

Wooden, John

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

13.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.

Chambers, Oswald

16.

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

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Wonder, Stevie

23.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

24.

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

25.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Faunce, Corporal John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Newman, John Henry

33.

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

George Bernard Shaw

34.

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

35.

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

Pitts, Earl

36.

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

Half, Robert

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

39.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

40.

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

41.

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

Pollard, John G.

42.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

44.

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

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Ford, Henry

47.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

49.

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

Faulkner, William

50.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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