Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

Paul Graham

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

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.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Moore, Grace

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Wonder, Stevie

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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 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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Faulkner, William

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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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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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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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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Pollard, John G.

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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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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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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Pitts, Earl

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Carlyle, Thomas

50.

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