"We have more ability than will power,..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
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“Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.”
“We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.”
“It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.”
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“You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.”
“We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.”
“And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.”
More on Ability
“It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.”
“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.”
“We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.”