Ability

(145 votes)   Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

John G. Pollard

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(123 votes)   The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(118 votes)   I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised 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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(116 votes)   Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

Henry Ford
1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company

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(107 votes)   The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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

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(105 votes)   To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(105 votes)   You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar
American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker

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(101 votes)   Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

John Andrew Holmes

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(101 votes)   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

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(100 votes)   there are two types of people...one who ask for directions and the others who find their way. both may reach the destination but the satisfaction of the other kind is far greater.

dominik sliver
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(99 votes)   The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Sir William Temple
1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist

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(99 votes)   Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(94 votes)   The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford
1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company

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(93 votes)   never jump off the side of the bridge if you don't know how deep the water is

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(92 votes)   The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist

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