"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Zedong, Mao on power   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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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 on ability
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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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 on ability
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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 on ability
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"Not many men have both good fortune and good sense."

Livy, Titus on ability
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on ability
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"They are able because they think they are able."

Virgil on ability
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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 on ability
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"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

Froude, James A. on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

Bacon, Francis on ability
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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. on ability
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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."

Erasmus, Desiderius on ability
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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 on ability
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"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on ability
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

Ziglar, Zig on ability
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