Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the Ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not.
Human beings who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
To show your true ability is always in a sense to surpass the limits of your ability to go a little beyond them: to dare to seek to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed discovered and realized.
ABILITY n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating them upon one point.
No mans abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity a patron and even the praises of a friend to recommend them to the notice of the world.
One big reason why men do not develop greater abilities greater sales strength greater resourcefulness is because they use neither their abilities nor their opportunities. We dont need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. Men fail and their families suffer deprivations when all the time these men have in their possession the same assets other men are utilizing to accumulate a fortune…. Life doesnt cheat. It doesnt pay in counterfeit coin. It doesnt lock up shop and go home when pay-day comes. It pays every man exactly what he has earned. The age-old law that a man gets what he earns hasnt been suspended. When we take that truth home and believe it weve turned a big corner on the high road that runs straight through to success.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
It is a fine thing to have ability but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they dont know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the Ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not.
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Human beings who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we dont use that ability as best we can.
To show your true ability is always in a sense to surpass the limits of your ability to go a little beyond them: to dare to seek to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed discovered and realized.
ABILITY n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Consider the postage stamp my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable future.
I add this that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
A right is not what someone gives you; it?s what no one can take from you.
The superior man is distressed by the limitation of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The question Who ought to be boss? is like asking Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously the man who can sing tenor.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the worlds problem.
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.
There is something that is much more scarce something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
To know how to hide ones ability is great skill.
Success is that old ABC Ability Breaks and Courage.
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating them upon one point.
Ability involves responsibility; power to its last particle is duty.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Ability doth hit the mark where presumption over-shooteth and diffidence falleth short.
Ability is sexless.
Competence like truth beauty and contact lenses is in the eye of the beholder.
No mans abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity a patron and even the praises of a friend to recommend them to the notice of the world.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
It is our duty as men and women to behave as though limits to our ability do not exist. We are collaborators in creation of the Universe.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
One big reason why men do not develop greater abilities greater sales strength greater resourcefulness is because they use neither their abilities nor their opportunities. We dont need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. Men fail and their families suffer deprivations when all the time these men have in their possession the same assets other men are utilizing to accumulate a fortune…. Life doesnt cheat. It doesnt pay in counterfeit coin. It doesnt lock up shop and go home when pay-day comes. It pays every man exactly what he has earned. The age-old law that a man gets what he earns hasnt been suspended. When we take that truth home and believe it weve turned a big corner on the high road that runs straight through to success.
Ability is a poor mans wealth.