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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "A right is not what someone gives you; it?s what no one can take
from you." | |
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Ramsey Clark
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| "Ability doth hit the mark where presumption over-shooteth and
diffidence falleth short." | |
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Nicholas of Cusa
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| "Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is
duty." | |
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Ian McLaren
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| "Ability is a poor man"s wealth." | |
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Sir Christopher Wren
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| "Ability is of little account without opportunity." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "Ability is sexless." | |
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Christabel Pankhurst
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| "Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody
else hits." | |
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Casey Stengel
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| "ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of
the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last
analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of
solemnity." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to
build one." | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "Behind an able man there are always other able men." | |
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Proverb
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| "Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of
the beholder." | |
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Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull
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| "Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its
ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "Do what you can ? with what you have ? where you are." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something
well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don"t use that ability as
best we can." | |
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Gracie Allen
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| "Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his
abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the
largest." | |
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Gail Hamilton
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| "Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to
do the work." | |
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J. G. Pollard
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| "Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do
the work." | |
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John G. Pollard
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| "Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic
end." | |
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Leon Gambetta
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| "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so." | |
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Douglas Noel Adams
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| "I add this, that natural ability without education has oftener
raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural
ability." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to
elevate his life by conscious endeavor." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "It is our duty ? as men and women ? to behave as though limits to
our ability do not exist. We are collaborators in creation of the
Universe." | |
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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| "Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence
or ability." | |
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Flower A. Newhouse
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| "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without
ability." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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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." | |
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Gaius Plinius Secondus Pliny, the Elder
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| "One big reason why men do not develop greater abilities, greater
sales strength, greater resourcefulness is because they use neither their
abilities nor their opportunities. We don"t need more strength or more
ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. Men
fail and their families suffer deprivations when all the time these men
have in their possession the same assets other men are utilizing to
accumulate a fortune.... Life doesn"t cheat. It doesn"t pay in counterfeit
coin. It doesn"t lock up shop and go home when pay-day comes. It pays every
man exactly what he has earned. The age-old law that a man gets what he
earns hasn"t been suspended. When we take that truth home and believe it,
we"ve turned a big corner on the high road that runs straight through to
success." | |
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Basil S. Walsh
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| "People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable
future." | |
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Jeff Blackman
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| "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don"t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are
determined to." | |
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George Allen
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| "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the Ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "Success is that old ABC ? Ability, Breaks, and Courage." | |
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Charles Luckman
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| "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world"s problem." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to
be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing
tenor." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "The superior man is distressed by the limitation of his ability; he
is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he
has." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than
ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." | |
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Robert Half
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| "To know how to hide one"s ability is great skill." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the
limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to
invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered,
and realized." | |
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Simone de Beauvoir
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| "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to
start over." | |
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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| "What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they
achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together
all the rays of their ability and concentrating them upon one
point." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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