Ability Quotes
Ability QuotesThere is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
-- Robert Half American Businessman, Founder of Robert Half & AssociatesI add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
-- Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, PoliticianNatural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
-- Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, PoliticianI know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
-- Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, NaturalistAll 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.
-- UnknownAbility is a poor man's wealth.
-- M. WrenIt is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
-- Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, PublisherGod does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
-- UnknownThe 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.
-- Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical WriterTo know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
-- Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical WriterThe Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
-- Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success MagazineAbility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
-- John Henry Newman 1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, WriterAbility is sexless.
-- Christabel PankhurstNatural 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.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German PhilosopherExecutive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
-- John G. PollardMartyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British DramatistThe 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.
-- Sir William Temple 1628-1699, British Diplomat, EssayistWicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
-- Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French MoralistThey are able because they think they are able.
-- Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman PoetThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
-- Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, American Black Leader and EducatorWe all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
-- Stevie Wonder 1950-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, ProducerAbility may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
-- John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball CoachYou are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
-- Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational SpeakerNatural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
-- Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, StatesmanAbility is of little account without opportunity.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, EmperorThe 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 CareyNo amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
-- Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919, American Industrialist, PhilanthropistAbility without honor is useless.
-- Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, PoliticianThe first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
-- Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GEBig jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, EssayistAbility will never catch up with the demand for it.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman