"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."

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

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

"Every man loves what he is good at."

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

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

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

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

"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.""

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"He'll find a way."

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

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

"Obusobozi bujjirako obuvunaanyizibwa."

"Ability involves responsibility."