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Men can do all things if they will. - Leon Battista Alberti To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary,--nature, study, and practice. - Aristotle Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. - Francis Bacon He'll find a way. - Sir James Matthew Barrie, Sentimental Tommy, corp's belief in Tommy and Tommy's belief in himself The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. - Bishop George Berkeley, as quoted in Punch, sources also attribute to Sydney Smith He is able who thinks he is able. - Buddha (Gautama Buddha) Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd. - ' Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 163) For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 971) No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. - Andrew Carnegie You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI) An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII) The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend (sect. I, essay VIII) Ability doth hit the mark where presumption over-shooteth and diffidence falleth short. - Nicholas Cusa I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. - John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (l. 160) He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. - William Feather Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right. - Henry Ford It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. - Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show. - James Abram Garfield The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - Baltasar Gracian (used pseudonym Lorenzo Gracian) Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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