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Ability
Men take only their needs into
consideration, never their abilities.
?Napoleon Bonaparte
A man dies still if he has done nothing,
as one who has done much.
?Homer
The carpenter is not the best who
makes more chips than all the rest.
?Arthur Guiterman
If you can't learn to do it well,
learn to enjoy doing it badly.
?Ashleigh Brilliant
People are always ready to admit
a man's ability after he gets there.
?Bob Edwards
Ability is the art of getting credit for all
the home runs somebody else hits.
?Casey Stengel
The winds and the waves are always
on the side of the ablest navigators.
?Edward Gibbon
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
?George Herbert
If they try to rush me, I always say,
I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
?Glenn Ford
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing
or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
?Henry Ford
From each according to his abilities,
to each according to his needs.
?Karl Marx
When people find a man of the most
distinguished abilities as a writer
their inferior while he is with them,
it must be highly gratifying to them.
?Samuel Johnson
'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
?Thomas Fuller, M.D.
There is great ability in knowing
how to conceal one's ability.
?Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Ability hits the mark where presumption
overshoots and diffidence falls short.
?John Henry Newman
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
?Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability wins us the esteem of the true
men; luck, that of the people.
?La Rochefoucauld
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must not deny his manifest abilities,
for that is to evade his obligations.
?William Feather
I think that God, in creating man,
somewhat overestimated his ability.
?Oscar Wilde
Natural abilities are like natural
plants; they need pruning by study.
?Francis Bacon
Knowing what you can not do is
more important than knowing what you
can do. In fact, that's good taste.
?Lucille Ball
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
?Ken Carey
I add this, that rational ability without
education has oftener raised man
to glory and virtue, than education
without natural ability.
?Marcus T. Cicero
The first requisite for success is the
ability to apply your physical and
mental energies to one problem
incessantly without growing weary.
?Thomas A. Edison
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog
has but one. But that is the best of all.
?Desiderius Erasmus
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.
?Douglas Everett
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
?Malcolm S. Forbes
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
?James A. Froude
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.
?Oliver Goldsmith
There is something that is much more scarce,
something rarer than ability.
It is the ability to recognize ability.
?Robert Half
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.
?Gail Hamilton
It is a fine thing to have ability,
but the ability to discover ability
in others is the true test.
?Elbert Hubbard
The Creator has not given
you a longing to do that
which you have no ability to do.
?Orison Swett Marden
Executive ability is deciding quickly and
getting somebody else to do the work.
?John G. Pollard
Behind every able man, there
are always other able men.
?Chinese Proverb
If you count all your assets
you always show a profit.
?Robert Quillen
If there be anything that can be
called genius, it consists chiefly
in ability to give that attention
to a subject which keeps it steadily
in the mind, till we have surveyed it
accurately on all sides.
?Theodor Reik
Put yourself in a state of mind
where you say to yourself, "Here
is an opportunity for me to celebrate
like never before, my own power, my
own ability to get myself to do
whatever is necessary.
?Anthony Robbins
Natural abilities can almost compensate for
the want of every kind of cultivation,
but no cultivation of the mind can make
up for the want of natural abilities.
?Arthur Schopenhauer
Martyrdom is the only way a man
can become famous without ability.
?George Bernard Shaw
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.
?Sir William Temple
He is the best sailor who can steer within
fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive
power out of the greatest obstacles.
?Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact
than the unquestionable ability of man to
elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
?Henry David Thoreau
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.
?Anonymous
God does not ask about our
ability, but our availability.
?Anonymous
Wicked people are always surprised
to find ability in those that are good.
?Marquis De Vauvenargues
They are able because they
think they are able.
?Virgil
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.
?Booker T. Washington
We all have ability. The difference
is how we use it.
?Stevie Wonder
Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there.
?John Wooden
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
?M. Wren
