Quotes about ability

"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."

Lemieux, Mario on ability   

"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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"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."

Moore, Grace on ability
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"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."

Newman, John Henry on ability
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"Ability is sexless."

Pankhurst, Christabel on ability
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"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."

Peter, Laurence J. on ability   

"The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker."

Pitts, Earl on ability
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"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."

Pollard, John G. on ability
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

Ruskin, John 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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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"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."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on ability
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."

Shaw, George Bernard on ability   

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

Somerville, Thomas on ability
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"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."

Temple, Sir William on ability   

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

Thoreau, Henry David on ability   

"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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"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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"The king is the man who can."

Carlyle, Thomas on ability
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"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite."

Carlyle, Thomas on ability   

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."

Carnegie, Andrew on ability
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"God does not ask about our ability, but our availability."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De 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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"The more you work hard, you make things easy"

Tadj Abelkader on ability