Quote: It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: 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.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Mario Lemieux American Hockey Player
Quote: Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Author: Titus Livy BC 59-17 AD, Roman Historian
Quote: The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Author: Grace Moore
Quote: Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Author: John Henry Newman 1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer
Quote: Ability is sexless.
Author: Christabel Pankhurst
Quote: Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Author: Laurence J. Peter
Quote: The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Author: Earl Pitts
Quote: Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Author: John G. Pollard
Quote: No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: 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.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: 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.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
Author: Thomas Somerville
Quote: 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.
Author: Sir William Temple 1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist
Quote: He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: 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.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: They are able because they think they are able.
Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: 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.
Author: Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator
Quote: Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Author: Charlotte Whitton
Quote: We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Author: Stevie Wonder 1950-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Quote: Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Author: John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Author: M. Wren
Quote: You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: Just do what you do best.
Author: Red Auerbach 1917-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
Author: Arthur James Balfour 1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Author: Lucille Ball 1911-1989, American Actress, Producer
Quote: Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: 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
Author: Ken Carey
Quote: The king is the man who can.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher
Quote: What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher
Quote: No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Author: Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist
Quote: When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Author: Oswald Chambers 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher
Quote: 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.
Author: Agatha Christie 1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
Quote: Ability without honor is useless.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Quote: Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: 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.
Author: Douglas Everett American Hockey Player
Quote: When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
Author: William Faulkner 1897-1962, American Novelist
Quote: Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Author: Corporal John Faunce American soldier
Quote: Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: 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.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Author: James A. Froude 1818-1894, British Historian
Quote: I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
Author: Jennie Garth 1972-, American Actress
Quote: The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Author: Edward Gibbon 1737-1794, British Historian
Quote: Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: 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.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: 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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Author: Robert Half American Businessman, Founder of Robert Half & Associates
Quote: 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.
Author: Gail Hamilton 1833-1896, American Writer, Humorist
Quote: 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.
Author: John Andrew Holmes
Quote: 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.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet