Quotes on Ability

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton

• enthusiasm
• success
• ability

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.John Stevenson

• discipline
• work
• ambition
• job
• ability

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.William Matthews

• focus
• talent
• ability

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

• ability

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.John Wooden

• ability
• accomplishment
• potential

You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.Zig Ziglar

• ability

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.Roy L. Smith

• discipline
• talent
• ability
• practice

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

• attitude
• ability

The man of superior abilities always finds admirers, go where he will.Alexandre Dumas

• ability

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