Ability And Capability Quotes | Interesting, Deep And Unique Sayings

Ability And Capability Quotes | Interesting, Deep And Unique Sayings

Ability And Capability Quotes | Interesting, Deep And Unique Sayings


There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard



Every man loves what he is good at.

Thomas Shadwell



As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

James Anthony Froude



Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter



Breath is strange, if you hold it for too long you run out.

Yuval Greenfield



They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil 



Every man who can be a first-rate something - as every man can be who is a man at all - has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

J. G. Holland



Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Cicero



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

George Bernard Shaw



Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

Nic Pizzolatto



He'll find a way.

J. M. Barrie



Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. 

Horace Walpole 



One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Jean de La Fontaine



The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes. 

Sydney Smith



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

Lucille Ball



Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. 

Alfred North Whitehead



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



Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke



One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. 

Quintilian



Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

Alexander Maclaren



Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them. 

Colin Wilson



I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale




Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul Richter



Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

George D. Boardman



The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

Luc de Clapiers



The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy. 

François de La Rochefoucauld



Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Mary Abigail Dodge



We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Stevie Wonder



We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.

Sydney Smith



Ability - The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.

Ambrose Bierce



What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it. 

Henry Liddon



The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon



A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. 

Robert Louis Stevenson



The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche



One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard


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