ABILITY

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

Kin Hubbard
1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist



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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer



Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Titus Livy
BC 59-17 AD, Roman Historian



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

Grace Moore



Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst



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

John G. Pollard



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



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



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

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist



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
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist



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

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist



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

Stevie Wonder
1950-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer



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

Zig Ziglar
American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker



Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor



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



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, Great Roman Orator, Politician



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, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE



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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist



Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

Henry Ford
1863-1947, Founder of Ford Motor Company