"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Ability, Skill

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Potential, Self, Ambition

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Ability, Effort, Limit, Performance

"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

Philosophy, Pride, Vanity

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

"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."

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."

"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."

"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."