ABILITY

YOU CANNOT HAVE WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT.
JOHN ACOSTA

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
Leonardo Ruiz

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon

God is the head of this house. The unseen guest at every meal. The silent listener to every conversation.
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow
Alberto Nikas

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten.
Marylin Monroe

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

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Source Unknown

Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
John G. Pollard

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

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

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Charles Caleb Colton

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

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.
John Andrew Holmes

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington

there are two types of people...one who ask for directions and the others who find their way. both may reach the destination but the satisfaction of the other kind is far greater.
dominik sliver

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Sir William Temple

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford

never jump off the side of the bridge if you don't know how deep the water is
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Ability is sexless.
Christabel Pankhurst

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

The king is the man who can.
Thomas Carlyle

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
John Henry Newman

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Titus Livy

"In the Land of The Blind a One-Eyed man is King"
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Adams first law of survival: Get even first.
Dale Adams

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
Source Unknown

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.
Dale Adams

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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably
Dale Adams

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened
Dale Adams

The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Henry David Thoreau

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Grace Moore

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
Swami Vivekananda

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
Thomas Somerville