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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. -
Thomas A Edison
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. -
Charles Caleb Colton
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -
Douglas Everett
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. -
Marcus T Cicero
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. -
William Faulkner
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. -
Agatha Christie
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.'' -
Oswald Chambers
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. -
Andrew Carnegie
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. -
Thomas Carlyle
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. -
Marcus T Cicero
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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. -
Edward Gibbon
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. -
Orison Swett Marden
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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. -
Gail Hamilton
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -
Robert Half
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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. -
Oliver Goldsmith
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. -
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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