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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
Tom Lehrer
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
François de la Rochefoucauld
The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
Seneca
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
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Edmund Burke
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice
Kahlil Gibran
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
With a sort of mental squint.
Lewis Carroll
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