Aptitude Quotes

• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 05, 2013

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• Aptitude starts with attitude.

  Greg Norman

  Attitude

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• Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

  James Hillman

  Dysfunction, Calling, May

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

  Jesse Jackson

  Attitude, Believe, Dope

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• I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

  Berry Gordy

  People, African American, Talent

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• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 09, 2014

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• Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

  Dave Ramsey

  Natural Talent, Desire, Pay

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.49, Penguin

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• Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Violence, Natural, Ability

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

  Andre Maurois

  Hard Work, Genius, Natural

  Andre Maurois (1942). “A Time for Silence”

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• Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Facts, Spirit, Talent

  "On the Road". Book by Anton Chekhov, December 25, 1886.

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• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Vivid Imagination, Understanding

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• Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Life, Humble, Reality

  Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul P. Ricchio (1984). “The Blue Bird ; And, The Betrothal”

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

  Harvey Mackay

  Attitude, Important, Bits

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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  Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 13, 2014

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• The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Successful, Talent

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• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Death, Failure

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014

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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Originality, Conformity

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• Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Inspirational, Patience, Design

  See Thomas Carlyle 19; Edison 2; Jane Ellice Hopkins 1

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• In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

  Conrad Hall

  Aptitude Test, Tests, Highest

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• Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

  Jeremy Irons

  Training, Theater

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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