Ability Quotes

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

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.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

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

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

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

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

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

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

Come give us a taste of your quality.

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

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

Ability without honor is useless.

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

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

I like people who can do things

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

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.

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

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

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

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.

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.

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

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

Ability without honor has no value.

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

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

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

Generosity should never exceed ability.

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

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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

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.

The implements to him who can handle them.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

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

I can do anything I want to do!

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.

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

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.

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

Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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

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.

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

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

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.

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

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

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.

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

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

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

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.