Ability Quotes

I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

I never thought I could sing. I still don't.

Superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class.

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

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

I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a miserably trivial distinction

Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.

Whatever their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

There are a lot of talented guys in the league, short and tall.

I honestly think the reason I've been able to improve year by year is work. Work with the team, work with my ability, focus on all the single details.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Genius draws no color line.