Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Paul Graham

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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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 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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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 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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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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

24.

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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 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.