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

Half, Robert on ability
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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 on ability
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"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."

Hamilton, Gail 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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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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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 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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"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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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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"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 on ability
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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 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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"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on ability
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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]"

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

Faunce, Corporal John on ability
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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 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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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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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 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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"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

Froude, James A. on ability
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"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

Hubbard, Elbert on ability
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"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

Ziglar, Zig on expectation
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"The king is the man who can."

Carlyle, Thomas on ability
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"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."

Carnegie, Andrew 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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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

Whitton, Charlotte on ability
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"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

Wonder, Stevie on ability
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"Ability is a poor man's wealth."

Wren, M. 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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"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

Ziglar, Zig on adversity
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"If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull."

Ziglar, Zig on effort
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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."

Unknown, Source 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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"A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman."

Somerville, Thomas on ability
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"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."

Hubbard, Kin on ability
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