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Quotes about Ability


Out of my lean and low ability
I 'll lend you something.

William Shakespeare

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

William Shakespeare

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.

William Shakespeare

Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.

John Gay

"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

Edmund Burke

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Edmund Burke

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aurelius

There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

And this new start meant a new leaf, life, willingness to atone, a search for stability, a fresh persona.

Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you're living in a mad world

Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you are living in a mad world

A ruler's job is to promote the bearability of life

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

How come you are so fond of all those probability people? Because they are never negative.

Andrejs Dunkels

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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.

Douglas Adams [Last Chance to See]

The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.

Wendy Reid Crisp

The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.

Wendy Reid Crisp

How come you are so fond of all those probability people? Because they are never negative.

Andrejs Dunkels

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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