Quotes
Quotes about Ability
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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.]
There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son habilete.]
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
