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Ability : Poor Man's Wealth !

  1. Ability is poor man's wealth. -M.Wren.
  2. To know how to hide one's ability is a great skill.
  3. There is no need to show your ability before everyone. -James Anthony Froude
  4. Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. -Napoleon Bonaparte
  5. If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. -Ashleigh Brilliant
  6. Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. -Casey Stengel.

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

  8. It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard.  We hire a man, not his history.  -Henry Ford .

  9. Ability is of little account without opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte.

  10. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. -William Feather.

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

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

  13. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -Malcolm S. Forbes.

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

  15. It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. -Elbert Hubbard.

  16. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -John G. Pollard.

  17. Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.  -George Bernard Shaw.

  18. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.  -Stevie Wonder.

  19. Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement. Buck Rodgers.

  20. 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).

  21. Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives. -LaVell Edwards.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

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