Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Newman, John Henry

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Pollard, John G.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

Newman, John Henry

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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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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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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wooden, John

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