Ability

(90 votes)   Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm S. Forbes
1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman

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(89 votes)   Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

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(88 votes)   Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(88 votes)   The king is the man who can.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(85 votes)   Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

John Henry Newman
1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer

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(85 votes)   Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Titus Livy
BC 59-17 AD, Roman Historian

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(81 votes)   "In the Land of The Blind a One-Eyed man is King"

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(79 votes)   Adams first law of survival: Get even first.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(77 votes)   God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

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(77 votes)   I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(77 votes)   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
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(75 votes)   Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(74 votes)   Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(73 votes)   If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(73 votes)   The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Earl Pitts

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