Ability

(614 votes)   YOU CANNOT HAVE WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT.

JOHN ACOSTA
POET

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(499 votes)   To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(468 votes)   The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.

Leonardo Ruiz
Student

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(278 votes)   As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(262 votes)   Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(257 votes)   Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(246 votes)   God is the head of this house. The unseen guest at every meal. The silent listener to every conversation.

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(246 votes)   The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(235 votes)   People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(221 votes)   A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten.

Marylin Monroe

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(221 votes)   Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow

Alberto Nikas
Computer Scientist

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(218 votes)   Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(213 votes)   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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(204 votes)   Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(196 votes)   The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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