QUOTES ON ABILITY
Author: SENTHIL KUMAR
Ability
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Edwards
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no
more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman
is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are
what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we
have already done.
Longfellow
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Smith Carter
Achievement
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes
"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with
nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.
Francis of Assisi
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also
believe.
Anatole France
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can
decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can
go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept
on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.
Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous
Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you
are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan
All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus