Ability Quotes - Page 12

• Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

  Brad Henry

  Inspirational, Believe, Fall

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• I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

  Martina Hingis

  Girl, Sports, Fitness

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• The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

  Paul Gauguin

  Powerful, Winning, Tools

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• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Leadership, Inspiration, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Courage, Opportunity

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• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Science, Power

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (11), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• 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

  Green Plants, Giving, Needs

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.579

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• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Writing, Opportunity

  "Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life". Book by Joe Moore, 1985.

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• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, God, Dream

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.85, Sophia Institute Press

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• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

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• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wise, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec. 1939

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• The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Book, Reading

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Future, Past

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• I choose not to place "DIS," in my ability.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Autism, Disability, Ability To Choose

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• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Doors, Joy, Sound

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• Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Flower, May

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• 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 Johnson

  Men, People, Distinguished

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.348

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• The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Chips, Carpenter, Carpentry

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Infinite

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• Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Focus, Attention, Want

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• All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Evil, Inability

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• The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

  Anton Seidl

  Gift From God, Has Beens

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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