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

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 173 reads

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

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 25 reads

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• 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

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 140 reads

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• Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 156 reads

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 179 reads

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

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 8 votes · 197 reads

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• 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.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 172 reads

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• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 25 votes · 163 reads

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• No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 104 reads

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• Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 90 reads

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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

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 35 reads

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• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 108 reads

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• The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 36 votes · 72 reads

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

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.8 · 10 votes · 196 reads

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• The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.0 · 10 votes · 194 reads

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• 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.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.2 · 22 votes · 37 reads

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• The king is the man who can.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 21 votes · 43 reads

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• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 94 reads

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• The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 28 votes · 6 reads

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• The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 43 reads

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• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 107 reads

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• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 46 votes · 55 reads

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• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.0 · 30 votes · 130 reads

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• What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 79 reads

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• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 130 reads

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• When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  4.4 · 61 votes · 152 reads

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• Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 29 reads

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• Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 105 reads

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