Ability Quotes

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

You’ve got to have the goods, my boy, If you would finish strong. A bluff may work a little while, But not for very long: A line of talk by itself Will seldom see you through. You’ve got to have the goods, my boy, And nothing else will do. The fight is pretty stiff, my […]

He is able who thinks he is able.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

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

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

Ability without honor is useless.

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

The superior man is distressed by his want of ability.

What you have in mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here. Why wait until the shadows of death?