- Ability is poor man's wealth. -M.Wren.
- To know how to hide one's ability is a great skill.
- There is no need to show your ability before everyone. -James Anthony Froude
- Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. -Napoleon Bonaparte
- If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. -Ashleigh Brilliant
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. -Casey Stengel.
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. -Edward Gibbon.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. -Henry Ford .
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Ability is of little account without opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. -William Feather.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. -Francis Bacon.
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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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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -Malcolm S. Forbes.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -Robert Half.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. -Elbert Hubbard.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -John G. Pollard.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. -George Bernard Shaw.
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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. -Stevie Wonder.
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Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement. Buck Rodgers.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924).
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Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives. -LaVell Edwards.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Noel Adams.
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Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. -Sir Hugh Percy Allen.
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When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself. -Brian Tracy.
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. -Eric Hoffer.
You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. -Hugh Macleod.