ABILITY

Ability


1. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

2. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Longfellow

3. As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
- James Froude

4. Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning
by study.
- Francis Bacon

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

6. The man who can speak acceptable is usually given
credit for ability out of all proportion to what he really
possesses.
- Dale Carnegie

7. The Difference between what we do and what we are
capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the
world’s problems.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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

9. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to
keep you there.
- John Wooden

10. A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing
of anything.
- Samuel Johnson