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A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
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Thomas Somerville
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8 votes
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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John Henry Newman
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15 votes
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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M. Wren
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6 votes
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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41 votes
Ability is sexless.
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Christabel Pankhurst
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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John Wooden
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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17 votes
Ability without honor is useless.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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164 votes
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Grace Moore
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11 votes
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
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James A. Froude
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14 votes
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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23 votes
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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John G. Pollard
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11 votes
God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
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Source Unknown
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4 votes
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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Elbert Hubbard
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7 votes
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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Henry Ford
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15 votes
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
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Kin Hubbard
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14 votes
Just do what you do best.
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Red Auerbach
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34 votes
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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Laurence J. Peter
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8 votes
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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George Bernard Shaw
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7 votes
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Francis Bacon
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49 votes
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
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Andrew Carnegie
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18 votes
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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John Ruskin
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11 votes
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
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Titus Livy
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8 votes
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
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Corporal John Faunce
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12 votes
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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15 votes
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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13 votes
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
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Earl Pitts
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14 votes
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Orison Swett Marden
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8 votes
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Desiderius Erasmus
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16 votes
The king is the man who can.
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Thomas Carlyle
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4 votes
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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17 votes
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Edward Gibbon
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16 votes
They are able because they think they are able.
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Virgil
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5 votes
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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6 votes
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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22 votes
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
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Stevie Wonder
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5 votes
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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Thomas Carlyle
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4 votes
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.
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Oswald Chambers
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47 votes
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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John Ruskin
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7 votes
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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William Faulkner
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19 votes
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
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Henry Ford
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7 votes
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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Marquis De Vauvenargues
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10 votes
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
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Zig Ziglar
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6 votes