Motivational Quotes

Ability

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

Whitton, Charlotte

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

Paul Graham

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

13.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Faunce, Corporal John