Natural Ability Quotes

• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life And Love, Congratulations, Entrepreneur

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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 the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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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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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Degrees, Solemnity, Found

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

  John D. Rockefeller III

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

  Ilchi Lee

  Energy, Flow, Language

  Ilchi Lee (2002). “Brain Respiration: Making Your Brain Creative, Peaceful, and Productive”, p.49, Healing Society

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• Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Choices, Foundation

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• People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

  Ted Williams

  Motivational, Practice, People

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• Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Persistence, Practice

  Stephen R. Covey (1991). “Principle-centered leadership”, Free Press

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• All I had was natural ability.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Natural, Ability

  "ESPN's Hall of 100", www.espn.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Player, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.

  LaVell Edwards

  Leadership, Eye, Cocky

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• Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Team, Wrestling

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• He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teaching, Men, Religion Of Islam

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• Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

  Pindar

  Teacher, Teaching, Winning

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• I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was
  special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged
  other subjects.

  Eve Arnold

  Special, Cameras, Use

  Eve Arnold (1987). “Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.

  Increase Mather

  Men, Grace, Soul

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• When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens and enlivens the inner man or woman. As a result we notice a measurable difference in our soul. We feel strengthened, filled with peace and joy. We possess spiritual energy and enthusiasm, both of which enhance our natural abilities. We can accomplish more than we otherwise could do on our own. We yearn to become a holier person.

  Keith K. Hilbig

  Spiritual, Men, Light

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• Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Drinking, Golf, Bars

  Jimmy Demaret (1954). “My Partner, Ben Hogan”, New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company

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• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  School, Men, Historical

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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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• I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

  David Duchovny

  Writing, Hard Work, Thinking

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