Ability Quotations

• Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
  Raymond Hull
• Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
  Mario Lemieux
• Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
  Livy
• The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do
  Orison Swett Marden
• Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
  Orison Swett Marden
• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career
  Grace Moore
• Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
  John Henry Newman
• Ability is sexless.
  Christabel PankhurstThe boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
  Earl Pitts
• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
  John G. Pollard
• As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
  Mary Lou Retton
• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
• The 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
• No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
  John Ruskin
• The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
  John Ruskin
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
  John Ruskin
• 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
• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
  George Bernard Shaw
• A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
  Thomas Somerville
• The 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
• All 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.
  Source Unknown
• God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
  Source Unknown
• Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
  Marquis De Vauvenargues
• They are able because they think they are able.
  Virgil
• 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
• Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
  Charlotte Whitton
• We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
  Stevie Wonder
• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
  John Wooden
• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
  John Wooden
• Ability is a poor man's wealth.
  M. Wren
• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
  Zig Ziglar