Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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.

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

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Somerville, Thomas

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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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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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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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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 less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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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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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Ford, Henry

34.

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

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

Pitts, Earl

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

Faulkner, William

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wooden, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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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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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.