The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
Ken Carey
The king is the man who can.
Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Andrew Carnegie
When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say, “I can’t.”
Oswald Chambers
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha Christie
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
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
George. C. Scott
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
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
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to
which we are not called.
St. Francis De Sales
We do what we can. The results are none of our business.
Jennifer Stone
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on
stone are worn down by water.
Amy Tan
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
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
Arthur James Balfour
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
Lucille Ball
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus
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
When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Henry Ford
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!
Henry Ford
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
James A. Froude
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
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
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
Jennie Garth
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Oliver Goldsmith
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Robert Half
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
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
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Lou Holtz
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Kin Hubbard
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
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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.
Titus Livy
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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 Pankhurst
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Laurence J. Peter
The 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
Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
Chinese Proverb
When one must, one can.
Yiddish Proverb
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen
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.
Theodor Reik
We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright…
Mary Caroline Richards
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, “Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”
Anthony Robbins
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Theodore Roosevelt
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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
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
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
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.
Anonymous
God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
Anonymous
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
