Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Moore, Grace

Best Quotes about Ability

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

Paul Graham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Pitts, Earl

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whitton, Charlotte

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

George Bernard Shaw

16.

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

17.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.

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

Chambers, Oswald

19.

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

20.

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

Half, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Moore, Grace

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Somerville, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

36.

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

Wooden, John

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Wonder, Stevie

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

Ziglar, Zig

43.

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

Faunce, Corporal John

44.

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

45.

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

Ford, Henry

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

48.

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

49.

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

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

Pollard, John G.

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