| Author |
Quotes |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Ability is of little account without opportunity. |
| Orison Swett Marden | The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. |
| Oscar Wilde | I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. |
| Plutarch | A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can." |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. |
| Robert Half | There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. |
| Robert Quillen | If you count all your assets you always show a profit. |
| Sam Rayburn | Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. |
| Samuel Butler | He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratched. |
| Samuel Butler | For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see. |
| Samuel Johnson | When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. |
| Sir James Matthew Barrie | He'll find a way. |
| Sir William Temple | 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. |
| Stevie Wonder | We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. |
| Sydney Smith | We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. |
| Theodor Reik | If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. |
| Thomas A Edison | The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. |
| Thomas Fuller M D | 'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship. |
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