Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

William Feather Quotes

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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

Francis Bacon Quotes

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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Lucille Ball 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

Ken Carey Quotes

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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 Quotes

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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 Quotes

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

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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 Quotes

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes

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

James A. Froude Quotes

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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 Quotes

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

Robert Half Quotes

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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 Quotes

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

Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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

John G. Pollard Quotes

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

Robert Quillen Quotes

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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 Quotes

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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 Quotes

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

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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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 Quotes

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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 Quotes

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