Ability Quotes

• "I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "Ability doth hit the mark where presumption over-shooteth and diffidence falleth short."
  By: Nicholas Cusa
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• "I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII)
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• "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions."
  By: 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
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• "For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see."
  By: Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 971)
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• "He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd."
  By: ' Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 163)
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• "He is able who thinks he is able."
  By: Buddha (Gautama Buddha)
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• "To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary,--nature, study, and practice."
  By: Aristotle
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• "Men can do all things if they will."
  By: Leon Battista Alberti
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• "The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value."
  By: Richard
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• "It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."
  By: Eric Anderson
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• "Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion."
  By: Joseph Alsop
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• "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
  By: Joseph Addison
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• "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
  By: Joseph Addison
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• "Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing."
  By: Vince Lombardi
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• "Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages."
  By: Christopher Columbus
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