This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

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“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Ability Quotes

1. With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible. - Jacob Gelt Dekker

2. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein

3. If we did things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

4. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - John Wooden

5. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. - Helen Keller

6. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden

8. Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. - Lowell Thomas

9. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. -Philiphs Brooks

10. Do not measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

11. If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Do not hoard it. Do not dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. - Brenda Francis

12. If you deliberately plan on being less than you can capable of being, then I warn you that you will be unhappy for the rest of your life. - Abraham Maslow

13. You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. - Zig Ziglar

14. Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton

15. If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. - Marcus T. Cicero

16. 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

17. 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

18. God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. - St. Francis De Sales

19. The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. - John Ruskin

20. 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. - John Ruskin

21. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. - Orison Swett Marden

22. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

23. 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

24. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Marcus T. Cicero

25. 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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