Ability Quotes
43 quotations about Ability
Just do what you do best.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.
Ability without honor is useless.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Authors on Ability
Red Auerbach
Francis Bacon
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas Carlyle
Andrew Carnegie
Oswald Chambers
Marcus T. Cicero
Charles Caleb Colton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desiderius Erasmus
William Faulkner
Corporal John Faunce
Malcolm S. Forbes
Henry Ford
James A. Froude
Edward Gibbon
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Elbert Hubbard
Kin Hubbard
Francois De La Rochefoucauld