Quotes About Ability

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

To every man according to his ability.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

They are able because they think they are able.

Christabel Pankhurst

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

The ability to sin differs among people. For example, a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.

As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?