You can’t have what you don not want.
- John Acosta (Poet)

To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French Classical Writer)

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
- Leonardo Ruiz (Student)

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman)

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician)

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.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet)

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

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 (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

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 (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright)

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one…characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Source Unknown

Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician)

God is the head of this house. The unseen guest at every meal. The silent listener to every conversation.
- Source Unknown

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow
- Alberto Nikas (Computer Scientist)

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 (1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE)

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
- John G. Pollard

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
- Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician)

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine)

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!
- Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company)

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten.
- Marylin Monroe

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
- Zig Ziglar (American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker)

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator)

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer)

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

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.
- Sir William Temple (1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist)

There are two types of people…one who ask for directions and the others who find their way. both may reach the destination but the satisfaction of the other kind is far greater.
- Dominik Sliver (Writer)

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.
- John Andrew Holmes

Never jump off the side of the bridge if you don’t know how deep the water is
- Source Unknown

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman)

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.
- Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company)

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
- Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French Moralist)

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher)

The king is the man who can.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author)

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
- Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist)

Ability is sexless.
- Christabel Pankhurst

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
- Titus Livy (BC 59-17 AD, Roman Historian)

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer)

Adams first law of survival: Get even first.
- Dale Adams (80 year old man)

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.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German Philosopher)

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
- Source Unknown

I don’t believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.
- Dale Adams (80 year old man)

In the Land of The Blind a One-Eyed man is King.
- Source Unknown

My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.
- Barack Obama