Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Somerville, Thomas

Best Quotes about Ability

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

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

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

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

Paul Graham

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

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

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Faulkner, William

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

31.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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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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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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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

38.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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.