Ability Quotes

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. (“Peter Pan”)

It’s one thing to have the gift, the ability and the talent. You need to put the work into it yourself, whether staring at video, starting early, preparation. You never take that for granted.

And that’s no idle jest.

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

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

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Men take only their needs into consideration. Never their abilities.

The question “Who ought to be boss?” is like as “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.