An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication.
Carl William Brown



60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
 


QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON ABILITY

 

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

 

James Anderton (1931-, American policeman)

 

 High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

 

Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)

  

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

 

Thom Gunn

  

If you have nothing else to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

 

George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)

  

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

 

Fred A. Allen (1894-1957, American radio comic)

 

 My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

 

Margaret Anderson (1886 -1973, American literary editor and autobiographer)

  

Just do what you do best.

 

Red Auerbach (1917-, American basketball coach)

  

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

 

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)

 

 Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

 

Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)

 

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

 

Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)

  

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

 

Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)

  

I thought he [Winston Churchill] was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

 

Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930, British Prime Minister)

  

The mind can store an estimated 100 trillion bits of information -- compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

 

Sharon Begley

  

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

 

Sharon Begley

 

 Ability is of little account without opportunity.

 

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French general, emperor)

  

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

 

William Frederick Book

  

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

 

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004, American historian)

  

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

 

Louise Bourgeois

  

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

 

Scotty Bowman (1933-, Canadian-born American hockey coach)

  

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

 

Ernest Bramah (American writer)

 

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

 

Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American psychologist, television and radio personality)

 

 With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides, He provides.

 

Frank N.D. Buchman

  

When the righteous man  turn away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

 

Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)

  

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

 

Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929, American sociologist)

  

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)

  

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

 

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)

  

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

 

Ken Carey

  

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

 

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)

  

The king is the man who can.

 

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)

  

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

 

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)

  

You can do what you want to do, sometimes you can do it even than you thought you could.

 

Jimmy Carter (1924-, American President (39th))

  

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."

 

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)

  

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

 

Coco Chanel (1883-1971, French couturier)

  

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

 

William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)

 

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

 

Lydia M. Child (1802-1880, American abolitionist, writer, editor)

 

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

 

Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)

 

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

 

Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister)

 

Ability without honor is useless.

 

Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)

 

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

 

Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)

 

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, Roman orator, politician)

 

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

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher)

 

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

 

Edgar Degas (1834-1917, French painter, sculptor)

 

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

 

John Dewey (1859-1952, American philosopher, educator)

 

Achievements, and energies; it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and ensures sureness.

 

Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910, American founder of the Christian Science Church)

 

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 (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)

 

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)

 

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

 

George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)

 

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

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

 

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than the things we like about ourselves.

 

Ellen Goodman

 

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

 

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, American actress, writer)

 

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)

 

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

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

 

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

 

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

 

Oriana Fallaci

 

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

 

William Faulkner (1897-1962, American novelist)

 

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

 

William Faulkner (1897-1962, American novelist)

 

Others have done it before me. I can, too.

 

Corporal John Faunce (American soldier)

 

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

 

Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)

 

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 (1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company)

 

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 (1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company)

 

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

 

James A. Froude (1818-1894, British historian)

 

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

 

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)

 

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"

 

Ava Gardner (1922-1990, American actress)

 

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

 

Jennie Garth (1972-, American actress)

 

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

 

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794, British historian)

 

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.

 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

 

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases, she gives us greater courage.

 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

 

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

 

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 (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

 

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

 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

 

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 (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

 

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

 

Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658, Spanish philosopher, writer)

 

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

 

Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658, Spanish philosopher, writer)

 

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

 

Martha Graham (1894-1991, American dancer, teacher, and choreographer)

 

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

 

William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)

 

Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.

 

J. D. Griffin

 

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

 

Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879, American author)

 

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

 

Robert Half (American businessman, founder of Robert Half & Associates)

 

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

 

Margaret Halsey (1910-1997, American author)

 

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

 

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804,  American  statesman)

 

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 (1833-1896, American writer, humorist)

 

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

 

Lorraine Hansbury

 

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

 

Jane Heard

 

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

 

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856, German poet, journalist)

 

It is ability, not disability that counts.

 

Edgar J. Helms

 

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 true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

 

John Holt (1908-1967, Australian Prime Minister)

 

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

 

Lou Holtz (1937-, American football coach)

 

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

 

Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)

 

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent.

 

Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937, American journalist, author)

 

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

 

Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)

 

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

 

Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American humorist, journalist)

 

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

 

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)

 

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself

 

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)

 

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy does.

 

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)

 

I have often been asked, "Do not people bore you?" I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

 

Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, amorist)

 

Ability wins us the appreciation of the true persons, and luck wins that of "the people."

 

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)

 

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.

 

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)

 

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

 

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)

 

We have more strength than will; and when we say things are impossible, it is often just excuses we make for ourselves.

 

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)

 

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

 

Grace Moore

 

We're certainly not satisfied with just winning games.  We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

 

Mario Lemieux (1965-, Canadian hockey player)

 

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

 

Titus Livy (BC 59-17 AD, Roman historian)

 

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

 

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527, Italian author, statesman)

 

Truly, man is a spectacularly vain, diverse, and fluctuating subject. It is hard to establish a specific and uniform judgment on him.

 

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527, Italian author, statesman)

 

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

 

Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)

 

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

 

Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970, American psychologist)

 

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

 

Mignon McLaughlin (1915-, American author, editor)

 

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

 

Thomas Merton (1915-1968, American religious writer, poet)

 

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!

 

Bette Midler (1945-, American singer, entertainer, actress)

 

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

 

Bette Midler (1945-, American singer, entertainer, actress)

 

Your thorns are the best part of you.

 

Marianne Moore (1887-1972, American poet)

 

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

 

William Murray (1705-1793, American judge)

 

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

 

Martina Navratilova (1956-, American tennis player)

 

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

 

John Henry Newman (1801-1890, British religious leader, prelate, writer)

 

The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)

 

The one-eyed man will have a stronger one eye; the blind man will have deeper inner sight, and will definitely hear better. To this extent, to me, the famous theory of survival of the fittest does not seem to be the only perspective that can be used to explain the progress of strengthening of a man or a race.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)

 

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

 

Indian Proverb (Sayings of Indian origin)

 

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

 

Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994, American President (37th))

 

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

 

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964, American author)

 

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

 

George Orwell (1903-1950, British author, "Animal Farm")

 

Ability is sexless.

 

Christabel Pankhurst

 

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the up soaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

 

Sylvia Pankhurst

 

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.

 

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)

 

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

 

Laurence J. Peter

 

 Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

 

Wendell Philips

 

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

 

Earl Pitts

 

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

 

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845, American poet, critic, short-story writer)

 

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

 

John G. Pollard

 

Throw a resourceful person into a river, and he will probably come out with a fish in his hand.

 

Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian origin)

 

Behind every able man, there are always other able men.

 

Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)

 

No one is so tall that he never needs to stretch, and no one is so short that he never needs to stoop.

 

Danish Proverb (Sayings of Danish origin)

 

Everyone must row with the oars they have.

 

English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)

 

The work will teach you how to do it.

 

Estonian Proverb

 

Suit yourself to the times.

 

German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)

 

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.

 

German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)

 

You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.

 

German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)

 

Apply fitting ability in the fitting place.

 

Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)

 

You can't blow against the wind.

 

Lithuanian Proverb

 

You can get used to anything -- even hell.

 

Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)

 

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven.

 

Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)

 

When one must, one can.

 

Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)

 

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

 

Robert Quillen

 

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

 

Theodor Reik (1888-1969, Austrian psychoanalyst)

 

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

 

Adrienne Rich (1929-, American poet)

 

We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright...

 

Mary Caroline Richards

 

Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

 

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)

 

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."

 

Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)

Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com

 

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

 

General Erwin Rommel

 

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

 

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919,  American President (26th))

 

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

 

Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857, Russian author)

 

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

 

John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)

 

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)

 

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

 

John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)

 

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

 

John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)

 

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

 

Huston Smith

 

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

 

Marilyn Vos Savant

 

Everyone will be taxed according to his means.

 

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)

 

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 (1788-1860, German philosopher)

 

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

 

George. C. Scott

 

Courage mounteth with occasion.

 

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

 

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

 

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

 

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

 

Thomas Somerville

 

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

 

St. Francis De Sales (1567-1622, Roman Catholic bishop, writer)

 

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

 

Jennifer Stone

 

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

 

Amy Tan (1952-, Chinese-American author, "The Joy Luck Club")

 

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 (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)

 

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

 

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)

 

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may

 

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)

 

Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say.

 

Brenda Ueland

 

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

 

Brenda Ueland

 

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.

 

Author Unknown

 

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

 

Author Unknown

 

It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current.

 

Author Unknown

 

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

 

Author Unknown

 

The law of culture is to let each of us become all that we are capable of becoming.

 

Author Unknown

 

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

 

M. Wren

 

They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business.

 

Author Unknown

 

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

 

Author Unknown

 

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This... is a precious gift.

 

Paul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)

 

 

Great success is commoner than great abilities.

 

Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues

 

 

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

 

Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)

 

 

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and become the best you can possibly be.

 

Thomas J. Vilord

 

 When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.

 

Martin Walsh

  

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 (1856-1915, American black leader and educator)

  

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

 

Archibald Wavell

  

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

 

Charlotte Whitton

 

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

 

Stevie Wonder (1950-, American musician, singer, songwriter, producer)

  

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

 

John Wooden (1910-, American basketball coach)

 

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

 

Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker)

 

 

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