Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

Best Quotes about Ability

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.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chambers, Oswald

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

George Bernard Shaw

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Moore, Grace

10.

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

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

13.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Ford, Henry

22.

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

23.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Pollard, John G.

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Newman, John Henry

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

Pitts, Earl

32.

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

33.

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

Somerville, Thomas

34.

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

35.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

36.

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

37.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

38.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

39.

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

Paul Graham

40.

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

41.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Half, Robert

42.

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

43.

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

45.

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

Faulkner, William

46.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Ziglar, Zig

47.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

49.

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

Whitton, Charlotte

50.

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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