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If you can not learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

People are always ready to admit a man ability after he gets there.

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

If they try to rush me, I always say, I have only got one other speed and it is slower.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

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

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.

There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one ability.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.