“Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.”
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.”
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
“Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.”
“It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
“To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
“Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.”
“I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.”
“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
“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.”
“There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
“I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]”
“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.”
“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.”
“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”
“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.”
“Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.”
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
“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.”
“I add this, that rational ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”
“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.”
“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.”