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“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Zig Ziglar Quotes |
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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”
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 |
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“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
Zig Ziglar Quotes |
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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin Quotes |
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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”
Anthony Robbins Quotes |
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“He'll find a way.”
Sir James Matthew Barrie Quotes Source: Sentimental Tommy, corp's belief in Tommy and Tommy's belief in himself
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“The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.”
Bishop George Berkeley Quotes Source: as quoted in Punch, sources also attribute to Sydney Smith
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“Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way,
ought to give us ground to presume ability.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice;
As if Divinity had catch'd
The itch, on purpose to be scratched.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 163)
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“For as our modern wits behold,
Mounted a pick-back on the old,
Much farther off, much further he,
Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 971)
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“You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in
the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)
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“I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without
natural ability.
[Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem
naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII)
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“The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's
shoulders to mount on.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Friend (sect. I, essay VIII)
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“Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 160)
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“As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“There is no need to show your ability before everyone.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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“Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of
his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is
the largest.
- Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge),”
Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge) Quotes Source: Country Living and Country Thinking--Men and Women
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“A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two.
[A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
[Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son
habilete.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (245)
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“To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely,
of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can
handle them.”
John Gibson Lockhart Quotes Source: Sir Walter Scott, in the "London and Westminister Review"
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“A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a
Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True,"
said he. "but every goose can."”
Plutarch Quotes Source: Laconic Apothegms--Remarkable Speeches of Some Obscure Men
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“One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance
of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
[Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque
artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: Prooemium (I, 4)
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