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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men, luck, that of the people.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning by study.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality, and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

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.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Behind every able man, there are always other able men.