Ability Quotes

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Accordingly, a "genius" is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Thomas Edison

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Michael Johnson
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Henry Ford
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Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
quotes by Thomas Edison

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible.
Bruce Lee
quotes by Bruce Lee

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci
quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy
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It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Anthony Robbins
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Oliver Goldsmith

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur James Balfour

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Lucille Ball

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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
Ken Carey

The king is the man who can.
Thomas Carlyle

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

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Andrew Carnegie

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha Christie

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Oswald Chambers

Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Charles Caleb Colton

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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.
Gail Hamilton

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.
John Andrew Holmes

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. George Herbert

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can handle them.
John Gibson Lockhart

A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can."
Plutarch

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
Bishop George Berkeley

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Edmund Burke

He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratched.
Samuel Butler (1)

For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.
Samuel Butler (1)

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Cicero

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
John Dryden

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
James Anthony Froude

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
James Anthony Froude

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Accordingly, a "genius" is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Thomas Edison
ability quotes by Thomas Edison

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Michael Johnson
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Henry Ford
quotes by Henry Ford

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu
quotes by Lao Tzu

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

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