Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Ability Quote





“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Harry F. Banks quotes

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“We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt”


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“A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.”
Donald Kircher quotes

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“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
Rosalynn Carter quotes

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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz quotes (American Football coach, 1937-1980)

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“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )
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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin quotes (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1848-1903)

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“The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal”


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“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”
Anthony Robbins quotes (American advisor to leaders)

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor
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Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach
1917-, American Basketball Coach
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
Arthur James Balfour
1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha Christie
1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Oswald Chambers
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
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Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

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“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux quotes (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman, 1901-1976)

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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy”
Thomas Arnold quotes

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“If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage”
Ashleigh Brilliant quotes (English Author and Cartoonist, b.1933)
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“Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.”
Charles Luckman quotes (US architect and industrialist 1910-1999)

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“The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
American Hockey Player
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce
American soldier
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman

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“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. quotes
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“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
George Allen quotes (American football Coach. Noted for his hard-driving work ethic. 1922-1990)

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“The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”
Alexander Haig quotes (American General, b.1924)
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“Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.”
Nitin Nohria quotes

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“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
Philemon Corrie Ten Boom quotes (Dutch Evangelist , 1892-1983)

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“The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.”
Jack Brymer quotes

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“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)

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“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
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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
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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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
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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
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Laurence J. Peter
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The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
John G. Pollard
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
John Ruskin

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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce”
Virginia Gildersleeve quotes
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“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
Charles M. Schulz quotes (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

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“Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture”
John Abbott quotes

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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)

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“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.”
Charles M. Schwab quotes (American industrialist 1862-1939)

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“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)

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“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room”
Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

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“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)

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