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Ability and Achievement QuotesFamous Ability and Achievement quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Virgil, David Lloyd George and others.
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[highlight-text]Trust your ability!
Itzhak Perlman
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[highlight-text]Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain
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[highlight-text]The only way round is through.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Ability is a poor man's wealth.
John Wooden
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[highlight-text]The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]They are able who think they are able.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]Everyone must row with the oars he has.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
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[highlight-text]I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]It's the whole not the detail that matters.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]It is not length of life but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
Ethiopian Proverb
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[highlight-text]God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]Long is the road from conception to completion.
Moliere
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[highlight-text]In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.
John Adams
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[highlight-text]Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.
Archimedes
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[highlight-text]Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Horace
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[highlight-text]The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
Bernie Mac
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[highlight-text]You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
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[highlight-text]You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Betty Ford
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[highlight-text]It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Kin Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.
Julia Louise Woodruff
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[highlight-text]As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
James A. Froude
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[highlight-text]That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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[highlight-text]Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.
William Van Horne
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[highlight-text]There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca
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[highlight-text]It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
Elaine Morgan
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[highlight-text]The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
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[highlight-text]Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]How many 'coming men' has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?
Arthur Wing Pinero
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[highlight-text]Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Brooks Hays
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[highlight-text]God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
Tom Hanks
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[highlight-text]Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn
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[highlight-text]Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
William Van Home
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[highlight-text]The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
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[highlight-text]I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.
Lucille Ball
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[highlight-text]Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
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[highlight-text]Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill but he will do very few things.
George Lord Halifax
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[highlight-text]I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
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[highlight-text]Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg
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[highlight-text]The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done Has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.
Justice Arthur Goldberg
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[highlight-text]'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the answer given without hesitation.
John Buchan
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[highlight-text]When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale
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[highlight-text]Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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[highlight-text]Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
WW. Ziege
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[highlight-text]What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
H. P. Liddon
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[highlight-text]If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.
Louis Dudek
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[highlight-text]Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country and thereby serve his children his neighbours his fellow men and the cause of freedom.
David Lilienthal
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[highlight-text]There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)
David Lloyd George
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[highlight-text]You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned but give him a little metal a few chemicals some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and vroom! There he is up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Russell Baker