Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

George Bernard Shaw

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

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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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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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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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

Newman, John Henry

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Pitts, Earl