Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Ability

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

Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Newman, John Henry

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

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

Faulkner, William

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Pitts, Earl

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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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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 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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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ford, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Chambers, Oswald