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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

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.

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.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare, if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

They are able because they think they are able.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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

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