Ability quotes

- Selected Ability quotes -

● The king is the man who can. Thomas Carlyle

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

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

● Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential. Liane Cardes

● If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison

● That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. Ralph Waldo Emerson

● Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

- ¼ of Ability quotes -

● People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. Bob Edwards

● When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. William Faulkner

● Others have done it before me. I can, too. Corporal John Faunce

● Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. Francis Scott Fitzgerald

● Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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

● It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Henry Ford

● If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

- ½ of Ability quotes -

● Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian

● Ability = first observe, than make decisions and then act accordingly. L.Ron Hubbard

● Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace

● We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham Maslow

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

● Ability is sexless. Christabel Pankhurst

● When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

- ¾ of Ability quotes -

● Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt

● Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Sydney Smith

● I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau

● Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

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

● They are able because they think they are able. Virgil

● We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. Stevie Wonder

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