Quotes: Ability, Part 2

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abilities
1. The quality of being able to do something, especially the physical, mental, financial, or legal power to accomplish a goal.
2. A natural or acquired skill or talent.
3. The quality of being suitable for or receptive to a specified treatment; especially, capable or talented with the capacity to achieve an objective: "They wanted computers with the capacity to be configured for use as file servers."

Quotations

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
—Elbert Hubbard

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
—Gambetta

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
—Flower A. Newhouse

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
—J.G. Pollard

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm, and team play.
—Wm. B. Given, Jr.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
—Goethe


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