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Quotes about ability
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. (Bierce Ambrose)
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. (Bierce Ambrose)
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. (Bierce Ambrose)
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. (Bierce Ambrose)
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. (Bierce Ambrose)
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. (Bierce Ambrose)
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. (Bierce Ambrose)
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. (Bierce Ambrose)
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. (Bierce Ambrose)
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. (Bierce Ambrose)
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. (Bierce Ambrose)
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. (Bierce Ambrose)
Ability is sexless. (Bierce Ambrose)
Man cannot live by incompetence alone. (Bierce Ambrose)
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker. (Bierce Ambrose)
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. (Bierce Ambrose)
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. (Bierce Ambrose)
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. (Bierce Ambrose)
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. (Bierce Ambrose)
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Bierce Ambrose)
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