Top Famous Quotes About Ability:

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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.

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

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

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

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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