Ability Quotes

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton

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

If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Ability without honor is useless.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit
Aristippus

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
Nitin Nohria

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

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

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

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

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

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

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.

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

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

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

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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 ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
George J. Seidel







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