Quotes with abilities

  • Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
  • What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
  • You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

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  • Horace You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Walter Bagehot A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • William Feather A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • James A. Froude As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Brad Henry Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Carson Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Gail Hamilton 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.
    Gail Hamilton
    American writer (1833 - 1896)
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  • Samuel Johnson Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Edward Young Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Arianna Huffington It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Brad Stone Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Ben Stein Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.
    The Statesman (1886) 229
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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