Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Ability

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Pollard, John G.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Faunce, Corporal 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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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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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

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

Paul Graham

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Pitts, Earl

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