Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

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 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

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Half, Robert

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.