Motivational Quotes

Ability

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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Best Quotes about Ability

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

Ford, Henry

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Faulkner, William

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Pitts, Earl

11.

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.

12.

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

Faunce, Corporal John

13.

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Pollard, John G.

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

36.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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

39.

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

Somerville, Thomas

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

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

George Bernard Shaw

44.

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 less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.