Motivational Quotes

Ability

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Ability

Ability without honor is useless.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Livy, Titus

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

Paul Graham

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Faunce, Corporal John

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

Faulkner, William

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

Wonder, Stevie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Newman, John Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm

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Just do what you do best.

Auerbach, Red

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

Somerville, Thomas

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

Pollard, John G.

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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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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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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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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Half, Robert

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

Pitts, Earl

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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.