Quotes About Ability

He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.