Quotes on Ability

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
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God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
I have often been asked, ''Do not people bore you?'' I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
Helen Keller 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova 1956-, American Tennis Player

The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

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