Ability Quotes

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“I like people who can do things”

“Come give us a taste of your quality.”

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”

“Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.”

“Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.”

“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”

“Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.”

“I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”

“Ability without honor has no value.”

“Genius is power, talent is applicability.”

“We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.”

“I can do anything I want to do!”

“I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.”

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

“Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.”

“Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.”

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”

“It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.”

“It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it”

“There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.”

“Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.”

“Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.”

“Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.”

“One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.”

“The implements to him who can handle them.”

“The tools belong to the man who can use them.”

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

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

“Our liberality should not exceed our ability.”

“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”

“I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.”

“Generosity should never exceed ability.”

“Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.”

“Ability without honor is useless.”

“We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.”

“People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.”

“Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.”

“No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.”

“Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.”

“If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability”

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

“Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.”

“Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.”

“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.”

“The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.”

“I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.”