Ability

"Álomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenség."

"Ability involves responsibility."

"Obusobozi bujjirako obuvunaanyizibwa."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

"He'll find a way."

"ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn."

"De chacun selon ses facultés, à chacun selon ses besoins;"

"Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him."

"Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability."

"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."

"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."

"You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to."

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"Etiam illud adjungo, sæpius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam."

"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on."

"I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box."

"Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest."

"Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire."

"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."

"Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves."

"One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself."

"As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities."

"The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show."

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

"Breath is strange, if you hold it for too long you run out."

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can 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."

"A Dwarf on a Giant's shoulder sees farther of the two."

"Every man who can be a first-rate something - as every man can be who is a man at all - has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing."

"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy."

"C'est une grande habileté que de savoir cacher son habileté."

"What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it."

"To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents — the tools to him that can handle them."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty."

"When you open your mind and hands and heart to the knowing of a thing, there is no room in you for fear."

"Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us."

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."

"Rust Cohle: Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at."

"A Traveler at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can.""

"Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil præcepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura."

"Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglättet sind."

"How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?"

"Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo."

"Every man loves what he is good at."

"Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within."

"Those who can bend need not be taught how to stand tall."

"One who intends to understand grasps even the slightest hint, but the one who has no intention to understand never comprehends, no matter how loudly you shout."

"Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."

"The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes."

"We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole."

"A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations."

"I think you are gonna find, when it's over... I think you're gonna find yourself one smilin' motherfucker. The thing is Butch, right now, you've got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don't last. And your days are just about over. Now that's a hard motherfuckin' fact of life. But it's a fact of life your ass is gonna hafta get realistic about. See this business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don't. Besides Butch, how many fights you think you got left in you anyway? Two? Boxers don't have an 'old timer's day.' You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna make it, you woulda made it before now."

"Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed."

"Les méchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habileté dans les bons."

"Possunt, quia posse videntur."

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

"I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them."

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

"Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."