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

Ability, Famous, Man

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."

Stendhal, French Writer

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"I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering."

Major Taylor, American Athlete

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Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

Ethics

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

Beauty

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

Time

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

Friendship

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

Health

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

Mistake

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

Food

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

Inspirational

"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."

Humor

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

Success