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The country needs and, unless I
mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation.
It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit
it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Theodore
Roosevelt |
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As life is action and passion, it is required
of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time,
at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
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Natural ability without education has
more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without
natural ability. Cicero |
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I know of no more encouraging
fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life
by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau |
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What lies behind us and what
lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Author Unknown |
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... all endeavor calls for
the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure
the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic
we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. Author Unknown |
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Ability is a poor man's wealth. M. Wren |
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Natural abilities can almost
compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation
of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. Schopenhauer |
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The height of ability consists
in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the
genius of the age in which we live. Rochefoucauld |
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If there be anything that
can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that
attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till
we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. Reid |
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No amount of ability is of
the slightest avail without honor. Andrew
Carnegie |
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Natural ability without education
has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without
natural ability. Cicero |
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There is something that is
much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability.
It is the ability to recognize ability. Elbert
Hubbard |
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To know how to hide one's
ability is great skill. Rochefoucauld |
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The abilities of man must
fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when
you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are
left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are
uncovered. Sir William Temple |
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If you can't do as you wish, do
as you can. Author Unknown |
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Every person is responsible
for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more,
and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. Gail
Hamilton |
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Never tell people how to do
things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity. George S. Patton |
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There are some people who
live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and
then there are those who turn one into the other. D.H.
Everett |
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Never tell a young person
that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries
for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. John Andrew Holmes |
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The test of a first-rate intelligence
is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function. F.
Scott Fitzgerald |
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They are able because they
think they are able. Virgil |
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Natural abilities are like
plants that need pruning by study. Francis
Bacon |
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The Creator has not given
you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Orison Swett Marden |
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The first requisite for success
is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one
problem incessantly without growing weary. Thomas
Edison |
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Consider the postage stamp:
its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till
it gets there. Josh Billings |
