Ability Quotes

• "To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talent--the tools to him that can handle them."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "Natural ability 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 ability."
  By: Arthur Schopenhauer
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• "Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation can make up for the want of natural abilities."
  By: Arthur Schopenhauer
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• "Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]"
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Titan (zykel 26)
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• "One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]"
  By: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), Prooemium (I, 4)
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• "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.""
  By: Plutarch, Laconic Apothegms--Remarkable Speeches of Some Obscure Men
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• "No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend to recommend them to the notice of the world."
  By: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
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• "Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and to conquer them."
  By: Wendell Phillips
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• "Ability is of little account with opportunity."
  By: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
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• "Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians."
  By: John Stuart Mill
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• "Ability involves responsibility. Power t its last particle of duty."
  By: Ian Maclaren (pseudonym of John Watson)
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• "Ability involves responsibility; power to its last particle, is duty."
  By: Alexander Maclaren
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• "To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can handle them."
  By: John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott, in the "London and Westminister Review"
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• "What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."
  By: Canon Henry P. Liddon
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• "To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son habilete.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (245)
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• "The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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