ABILITY

Related Subjects: Cleverness, Craftsmanship, Genius, Power, Skill, Strengt, Talent

1. There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.—BURKE    
   
   
2. I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.—CICERO
   
   
3. As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.—FROUDE
   
   
4. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.—GIBBON, Decline and Fall
   
   
5. Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   
   
6. He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.—CHARLES KINGSLEY
   
   
7. God obligeth no man to more than he hath given him ability to perform.—The Koran
   
   
8. There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   
   
9. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.—KARL MARX, The German Ideology
   
   
10. I try all things; I achieve what I can.—HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
    
    
11. . .. I was in the middle of dream. I thought that if you succeed, that is to be a great man but when I came here and had so much bad time and asked fairly famous man for help and he said to another man that I had no spirit, when I heard this then suddenly I saw that man cannot stand up in the world by ability alone. Even if you do stand up it is like machinery. It is necessary to have virtue to correspond. And really I have awakened to realize that ability is secondary.—NOGUCHI, Gustave Eckstein: Noguchi
    
    
12. A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."—PLUTARCH, Laconic Apothegms
    
    
13. A man can do no more than he can.—Proverb
    
    
14. No one knows what he can do till he tries.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    
    
15. The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.—JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
    
    
16. Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
    
    
17. So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it ; and consequently so long is it impossible to him that he should do it.—SPINOZA, Ethics
    
    
18. Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.—SIR HENRY TAYLOR
    
    
19. Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.—THOREAU, Walden