If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. Ashleigh Brilliant
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. John Foster Dulles
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. Bob Edwards
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower. Glenn Ford
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Henry Ford
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship. Thomas Fuller
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. Franz Grillparzer
The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest. Arthur Guiterman
Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar George Herbert
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. Homer
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. Francis Bacon
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. Samuel Johnson
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember. Karl Kraus