Ability Quotes
Enjoy this collection of Ability Quotes. These Famous Quotes will enlighten and inspire...
Ability Quotes:
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without
growing weary." - Thomas A. Edison
"How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind,
unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his
knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were
old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best
thoughts." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their
real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves." - Sydney J. Harris
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot
be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction
- but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed." - Thomas More
Ability Quotes:
"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." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more." - Gail Hamilton
"The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great
tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and
women go to their graves with their music still in them." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"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." - Henry Ford
"I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able
to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life." - Oprah Winfrey
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." - Francis Bacon
"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential." - Liane Cardes
"He is able who thinks he is able." - Buddha
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Joanne Kathleen
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that
one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." - Andre Malraux
Ability Quotes:
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one." - Mark Twain
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest
obstacles." - Henry David Thoreau
"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their
work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future." - Brian Tracy
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and
are able to turn both to their advantage." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin
Ability Quotes:
"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." - Douglas Everett
"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." - Booker T. Washington
"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." - John Andrew Holmes
"We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them." - François de la Rochefoucauld
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
Ability Quotes:
"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it
or not." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"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." - Gail Hamilton
Return from Ability Quotes to Inspirational Quotes
Return from Ability Quotes to Creating Positive Change
|