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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. (Dalai Lama )
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. (Dalai Lama )
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. (Dalai Lama )
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. (Dalai Lama )
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. (Dalai Lama )
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. (Dalai Lama )
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. (Dalai Lama )
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. (Dalai Lama )
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. (Dalai Lama )
Ability is sexless. (Dalai Lama )
Man cannot live by incompetence alone. (Dalai Lama )
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker. (Dalai Lama )
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. (Dalai Lama )
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. (Dalai Lama )
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. (Dalai Lama )
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (Dalai Lama )
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. (Dalai Lama )
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (Dalai Lama )
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. (Dalai Lama )
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. (Dalai Lama )
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Dalai Lama )
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