Ability
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Behind an able man there are always other able men. - Chinese proverb

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

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited. - Ralph Half

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. - Confucius

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. - Ayn Rand

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington

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

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. - William DeMille

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

A power I have, but of what strength and nature I am not yet instructed. (from Measure for Measure, act 1, sc. 1) - William Shakespeare