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Ability
«Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.»
Author: Alexander Haig
(General)
| About:
Ability,
Action
| Keywords:
affirmation, affirmations, beyond, capability, dare, defined, higher, high level, high life, ideals, level, leveling, practice, preach
«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.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.»
Author: George Allen
(Coach)
| About:
Ability,
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
determined, mediocre, outstanding, People of, quit
«Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul»
«Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.»
Author: Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
| About:
Ability,
Leadership
| Keywords:
conclusively, Day to Day, lead, leading man, proves
«No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
ability, amount, amounted, amounting, avail, avails, honor, honoring, slightest
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, natural, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, study
«Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily»
«Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.»
«Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cultivation, make up, natural, natural ability
