Ability Quotes
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Bierce, Ambrose
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Brilliant, Ashleigh
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Dulles, John Foster
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
Edwards, Bob
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ford, Glenn
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
Ford, Henry
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Frost, Robert
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Fuller, Thomas
'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
Gibbon, Edward
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Grillparzer, Franz
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.
Guiterman, Arthur
The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest.
Herbert, George
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Homer
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Johnson, Samuel
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them.
Kraus, Karl
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
La Rochefoucauld, François
There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one's ability.
La Rochefoucauld, François
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
Marx, Karl
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Newman, John Henry
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Peter, Laurence J.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Stengel, Casey
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Syrus, Publilius
No one knows what he can do until hetries.
Unknown
Ability lies in the mind and the heart. To tell your mind to limit your abilities and to ignore the calls of your heart is only disabling yourself.