Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Ability

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Pollard, John G.

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.

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

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

Pitts, Earl

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

Whitton, Charlotte

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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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 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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Faulkner, William

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wooden, John