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Elbert Hubbard

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

Robert Half

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

Whitney Moore Young

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F Scott

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Karl Marx

From each, according to his ability to each, according to his need.

Karl Marx

From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.

Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

F Scott

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

John Wooden

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Charles Luckman

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

Basil S. Walsh

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Flannery O'Connor

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Casey Stengel

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Max Eastman

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

B. A. Billingsly

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

Alvin Toffler

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Arnold Glasgow

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Bob Robert Alan Edwards

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Harry S Truman

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.

John Foster Dulles

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

Jean Rostand

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Anthony Robbins

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

Bette Greene

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

Adolf Hitler

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Arnold H. Glasow

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Amy Grant

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

George Allen

People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Charles Schwab

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Fred A. Manske, Jr.

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

Richard Milhous Nixon

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

George Herbert Allen

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Samuel Goldwyn

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.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Norman Thomas

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

Gunnar Myrdal

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.

George J. Seidel

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

John D. Rockefeller

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

Lou Dorfsman

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

T. S. Eliot

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

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

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Diplomacy is the ability to let someone else have your way.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.

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

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

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

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

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

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

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

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

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

Jamforx - The ability of cramming one more utensil in the dishwasher

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

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

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.

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.

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

'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

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

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

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

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

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

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