Ability Quotes - Page 5

• Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Advice, Profit

  "Maximes Et Réflexions Morales".

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• Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Thinking, Wonderful, Charm

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• Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

  Torey L. Hayden

  Laughter, Laughing, Magic

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• People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Moral, Feels

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Men, Sight

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.87, Prestwick House Inc

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• Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

  Douglas Adams

  Past, Errors, Blame

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• Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Hurt, Heart, Emotional

  Dorothy Koomson (2008). “My best friend's girl”

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• There is only one proof of ability - action.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Action, Proof

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• In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Paint, Ifs

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• Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

  Sophie Tucker

  Business, Shows, Depends

  SOPHIE TUCKER (1945). “Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER”

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• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Education, Time, Positive Thinking

  "The Crack-Up" (1936)

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• Ability is a poor man's wealth.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sports, Men

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.82, B&H Publishing Group

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

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Learning, Acceptance

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.313

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Future, Fighting

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• Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Responsibility, Responsible, Scope

  "Country Living and Country Thinking, Men and Women". Book by Gail Hamilton, 1871.

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• People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

  Albert Bandura

  Believe, Successful, Exercise

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• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Careers, New Job

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• The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dwarves, Giants, Shoulders

  The Friend vol. 2 "On the Principles of Political Knowledge" (1818)

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• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Space, Ability To Love, Consciousness

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• The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Focus, Energy

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• God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

  Abdul Kalam

  Strength, God, Faith

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.33, Universities Press

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• You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hands, Devil, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

  Aristippus

  Education, Learning, School

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• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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