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"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

Gibbon, Edward on ability
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

Ball, Lucille 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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"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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"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 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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"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."

Thoreau, Henry David on ability
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"God does not ask about our ability, but our availability."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"They are able because they think they are able."

Virgil on ability
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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. on ability
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Hill, Napoleon on achievement
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"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Robinson, Eddie on achievement
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"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on achievement
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"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Thatcher, Margaret on achievement
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"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."

Ziglar, Zig on achievement
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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

Bennett, Thomas A. on achievement
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

Eliot, George on achievement
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

Anster, John on action
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of"

Hoffer, Eric on achievement
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

Kuralt, Charles on achievement
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

Bacon, Francis on ability
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