Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Half, Robert

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

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Wonder, Stevie

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Faulkner, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Wooden, John

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Pitts, Earl

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

Pollard, John G.

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