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Auerbach, Red
1917 American Basketball Coach
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
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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Balfour, Arthur James
1848-1930 British Conservative Politician Prime Minister
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that s good taste.
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Ball, Lucille
1911-1989 American Actress Producer
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
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
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Carey, Ken
The king is the man who can.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
What you see, but can t see over is as good as infinite.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
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Carnegie, Andrew
1835-1919 American Industrialist Philanthropist
When it is a question of God s almighty Spirit, never say, I can t.
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Chambers, Oswald
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher Author
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.
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Christie, Agatha
1891-1976 British Mystery Writer
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Ability without honor is useless.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1772-1834 British Poet Critic Philosopher
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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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Edison, Thomas A.
1847-1931 American Inventor Entrepreneur Founder of GE
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Erasmus, Desiderius
c1466-1536 Dutch Humanist
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.
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Everett, Douglas
American Hockey Player
When my horse is running good, I don t stop to give him sugar.
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Faulkner, William
1897-1962 American Novelist
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
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Faunce, Corporal John
American soldier
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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Forbes, Malcolm S.
1919-1990 American Publisher Businessman
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can t, you re right!
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Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
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.
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Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
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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Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
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Froude, James A.
1818-1894 British Historian
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
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Garth, Jennie
1972 American Actress
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Gibbon, Edward
1737-1794 British Historian
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Half, Robert
American Businessman Founder of Robert Half and Associates
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.
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Hamilton, Gail
1833-1896 American Writer Humorist
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.
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Holmes, John Andrew
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.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
It s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
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Hubbard, Kin
1868-1930 American Humorist Journalist
To know how to hide one s ability is great skill.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
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.
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Lemieux, Mario
American Hockey Player
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
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Livy, Titus
BC 59-17 AD Roman Historian
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Analyzing what you haven t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Moore, Grace
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Newman, John Henry
1801-1890 British Religious Leader Prelate Writer
Ability is sexless.
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Pankhurst, Christabel
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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Peter, Laurence J.
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
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Pitts, Earl
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Pollard, John G.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
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.
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Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
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.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
A genius can t be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
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Somerville, Thomas
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.
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Temple, Sir William
1628-1699 British Diplomat Essayist
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
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.
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Unknown, Source
God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
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Unknown, Source
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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Vauvenargues, Marquis De
1715-1747 French Moralist
They are able because they think they are able.
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Virgil
c 70 - 19 BC Roman Poet
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.
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Washington, Booker T.
1856-1915 American Black Leader and Educator
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
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Whitton, Charlotte
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
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Wonder, Stevie
1950 American Musician Singer Songwriter Producer
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Wooden, John
1910 American Basketball Coach
Ability is a poor man s wealth.
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Wren, M.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
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Ziglar, Zig
American Sales Trainer Author Motivational Speaker
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