Ability Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Life, Race, Allusion

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• Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Giving, Way

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1514, Delphi Classics

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• You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

  Ernest Holmes

  Health, Knowing, Affair

  Ernest Holmes, Michael Beckwith (2010). “How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library”, p.266, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, People, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.699, e-artnow

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• There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

  Winslow Homer

  Art, Work, Way

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Earl Nightingale

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• 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

  Successful, Power, Best Effort

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• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Spirit, Almighty

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.240, Discovery House

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Vivid Imagination, Understanding

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  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Political

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Teamwork, Common Vision, Individual Effort

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• 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".

  Unknown

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  I Love You, Stupid, Bliss

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• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.. 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."

  Tony Robbins

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Joy

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• 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.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, Waiting

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• Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Morning, Mind, Tasks

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• When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

  Jim Hodges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Winning, Men, People

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

  Nitin Nohria

  Tests, Way, Maintaining

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• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

  Nolan Ryan

  Ability To Change, Enjoy, Adaptability

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Real, Knowledge, Age

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