Ability Quotes

• "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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• "Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera; it is the ego they cannot forgo."
  By: John Kenneth Galbraith
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• "Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow."
  By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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• "As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
  By: Helen Keller
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• "Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know."
  By: Thomas Wolfe
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• "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
  By: Alfred North Whitehead
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• "Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
  By: Henry Van Dyke
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• "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."
  By: Isaac Newton
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• "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
  By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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• "Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
  By: Wilbur Wright
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• "Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."
  By: Unknown
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• "There is nothing worse in this world than wasted talent."
  By: Unknown
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• "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage."
  By: Sydney Smith
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