Ability Quotes page 2

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."
Jim Rohn

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
Baltasar Gracian

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
Andrew Carnegie

"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."
Anthony Robbins

“They are able because they think they are able.”
Vergil

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”
Elbert Hubbard

"We are our own coach and team
Yet we often sideline our best efforts.
We all have unique gifts and talents,
Yet many pass undiscovered.
The world is full of opportunities,
Yet our view of life can blind us to them.
We are all capable of so much,
Yet limited by so little."
Donald S. Neviaser, The Inner View, Life Enhancing Perspectives

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life"
Dr. David M. Burns

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
George Allen

"You have to have confidence in your ability,
and then be tough enough to follow through."
Rosalynn Smith Carter

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist,
but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but wewill never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer."
Thomas J. Watson

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
Samuel Goldwyn

“As is our confidence,
so is our capacity.”
William Hazlitt

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...
and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
Lou Holtz

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility,
in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have
is the ability to take on responsibility."
Michael Korda

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not."
Thomas Huxley

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
Helen Keller