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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

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. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. (Quote by - Henry Ford)

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and to conquer them (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

The only power an actor has is the ability to say: 'No' (Quote by - Lou Diamond Phillips)

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. (Quote by - John Andrew Holmes)

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. (Quote by - Martha Grimes)

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making. (Quote by - Alan Greenspan)

Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem. (Quote by - Dale Adams)

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together (Quote by - Robert Reich)

They are able because they think they are able. (Quote by - Vergil)

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. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability. (Quote by - Russell Mark)

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)

There is no need to show your ability before everyone. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.] (Quote by - George Herbert)

Your integrity is more precious than your life. (Quote by - Dale Adams)

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try. (Quote by - Leonardo Ruiz)

Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves. (Quote by - Didacus Stella)

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. (Quote by - Dale Adams)

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