Famous Quotes about Ability (75 Quotations)

I choose not to place “DIS”, in my ability.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Just do what you do best.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

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.

Limitations only go so far.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

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.

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.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.