Quotes About Ability

So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.

cada cual llega hasta donde puede y los demás le dejan y a ti se te permite vivir, ¿te parece poco?

Garfield, the New York Herald argued, "has recognized Republicans as members of a great party and not of mean factions. He has chosen men for office because of their fitness and ability, and not because they have stuck to the political fortunes of loved leaders.

With judgment comes the ability to disregard your own intuition unless you can explain it logically, the eagerness to judge and convict your own feelings, rather than honor them.

Genius will live and thrive without training. —MARGARET FULLER

Of course I know how to drive. Now, if you ask me if I know how to drive well, the answer would be different.

You know, there's a very good chance I'm the best fighter in this room. Did you ever think of that?" Never mind the fact that I'd almost died. "Maybe, if you were better, you wouldn't be so surprised when someone exhibits extraordinary abilities.

Clementine nudges my shoulder. "I firmly believe you could hit eleven out of ten targets, with only nine bullets." I snort-laugh. "What?" she says. "It's true. I also believe you could cut a knife with butter." This time, everyone snort-laughs.

Often in life we will be evaluated and judged by people less qualified than ourselves. And that's frustrating. Authority doesn't always indicate ability or good judgment.

Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.

Your ability, at all times, to use the unfailing power which is yours depends upon your recognition of its presence.

What else can she do?" she asks. "She's not a trick monkey." "She'd never make it as a trick monkey. She only has one trick," Piper says. "487 times 6,421 is 3,127,027," Nat says.

Being gifted needs courage.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

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

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

And in spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

It is a distinctive American genius, this ability to transmute subversion into a marketable commodity.

Of what value after all is a power which one could never use, or at any rate did not know how to use?

Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.