Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Ability

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Moore, Grace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whitton, Charlotte

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

Faulkner, William

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

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

Pollard, John G.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Newman, John Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Wooden, John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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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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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Wonder, Stevie

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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