If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Brilliant, Ashleigh
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art…. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
Dulles, John Foster
People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there.
Edwards, Bob
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
If they try to rush me, I always say, I’ve only got one other speed and it’s slower.
Ford, Glenn
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Ford, Henry
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Frost, Robert
‘Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
Fuller, Thomas
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Gibbon, Edward
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.
Grillparzer, Franz
The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest.
Guiterman, Arthur
Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar
Herbert, George
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Bacon, Francis
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them.
Johnson, Samuel
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.
Kraus, Karl
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois
There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one’s ability.
La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Marx, Karl
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Newman, John Henry
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Peter, Laurence J.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Bierce, Ambrose
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Stengel, Casey
No one knows what he can do until hetries.
Syrus, Publilius
Ability lies in the mind and the heart. To tell your mind to limit your abilities a
Unknown
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
