Ability Quotes - Page 13

• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

  Zig Ziglar

  Confidence, Running, Design

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 16, 2014

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• 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.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Spheres, Responsible, Scope

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Mind, Want, Kind

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• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Business, Lying

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• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Skills, Hiding, Know How

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• Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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• It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Helping Others, Matter, Where We Come

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• If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Strong, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.400, Manonmani Publishers

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• Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Blow, Wind

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Working Together, Quality

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Men, Goal

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• Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

  Ned Rorem

  Humor, Two Sides, Flipping A Coin

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

  Noah Levine

  Selfish, Pursuit Of Happiness, Training

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• No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Effort, Intellectual, Done

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• If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

  Josh Billings

  Motivational, Believe, Can Do

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• Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

  Hugh Allen

  Friendship, Two Friends, Silence

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• Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Ambition, Unhappy, Weakness

  Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.258, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

  Peter Alliss

  Golf, Games, Fantasy

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• You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones or the Internet?

  Samuel Alito

  Mean, Gay, Assessment

  "California's Proposition 8 Gets Its Day In The Supreme Court". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 26, 2013.

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• Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

  Sugata Mitra

  Education, Knowing, Important

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