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Ability

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Theodore Roosevelt
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, Jr.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Author Unknown
... 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.
Author Unknown
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren
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.
Schopenhauer
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Rochefoucauld
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Reid
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Andrew Carnegie
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Rochefoucauld
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
If you can't do as you wish, do as you can.
Author Unknown
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.
Gail Hamilton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
D.H. Everett
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
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
Natural abilities are like plants that need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas Edison
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings

8/6/08

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