ABILITY QUOTES IV

quotations about ability

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

ELBERT HUBBARD

"The Crying Need", A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things

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Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

JACOB ABBOTT

The Young Christian


If you are afraid of losing, you won't be able to try things out and you won't know what your ability is.

ASHWIN ACHAL

"If you are afraid of losing, you won't be able to try things out and you won't know what your ability is", The Hindu, July 4, 2016


It's not just about being a good player -- ability is nothing with the wrong attitude.

JOE ALLON

"Newcastle United stars of years gone by had to start out with a bucket and a mop", Chronicle Live, February 15, 2015


Ability is active power, or power to perform.

NOAH WEBSTER

An American Dictionary of the English Language

Tags: power


Proven abilities are often worth more than a name everybody recognizes on a resume.

NATHAN PARCELLS

"The perks of interning at an emerging startup may surprise you", Mashable, February 16, 2016


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

DEMOSTHENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Your ability is stronger than your disability.

ANTHONY TRUHILLO

attributed, "Learning disability didn't keep Noli student from his dream: owning a clothing line", The Press Enterprise, January 13, 2017


Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

J. G. HOLLAND

Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects


Understanding your role and doing your role to the best of your ability is a big part of a team.

ANDREW LUCK

attributed, "Colts' Robert Turbin: doing a lot with a little", WTTV CBS4Indy, December 21, 2016


Native ability without education is like a tree which bears no fruit.

ARISTIPPUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: education


You have to start by finding your fixed-mindset trigger. Listen to the situation; when you start feeling your ability is fixed or limited. Just accept it at first, just listen to it. Then you start working with it. You can give your fixed mindset a name; it could be your father or your aunt. Who is that person that discourages you? Start talking to that voice. Reason with your persona: "Thank you for looking out for me, but I'd really like to try this."

CAROL DWECK

attributed, "This simple shift in thinking can make you more successful, professor says", CNBC, June 13, 2016

Carol Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She is known for her work on the mindset psychological trait.


In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

PLINY

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Pliny the Elder


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

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Arthur Schopenhauer


No person shall be obliged to do beyond his ability.

MAHOMET

attributed, Day's Collacon


Ability is of little account without opportunity.

NAPOLEON

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical

Tags: opportunity


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

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes

Evan Esar (1899-1995) was an American humorist. His quotes are commonly found in Crossword puzzles.

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Ability is nothing without work ethic. When opportunity knocks, open the door even if you're in your bathrobe.

BRANDON BAILEY

"My Kingston -- August 23", Jamaica Observer, August 23, 2015


Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

JOHN GOTTLIEB FICHTE

The Popular Works of John Gottlieb Fichte

Tags: faith


As a student, when your interests, skills, and abilities are in play, the world is not only open to you, it is wide open before you.

DANNI WHITE

"What Elon Musk Knows About Education That Most Students Don't", Uloop, February 29, 2016