Ability Quotes

• "Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
  By: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• "They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (V, 231)
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• "The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]"
  By: Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues, Reflexions (CIII)
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• "A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (76)
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• "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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• "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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• "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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• "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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• "A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]"
  By: George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
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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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• "Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure."
  By: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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• "I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal."
  By: Thornton Wilder
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• "I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
  By: Alfred North Whitehead
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• "We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have."
  By: Basil S. Walsh
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