Sunday, November 21, 2010

Quotes - Ability Part 1

"YOU CANNOT HAVE WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT."
John Acosta

"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten."
Marilyn Monroe

"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

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow"
Alberto Nikas

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Ability without honor is useless."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."
Francis Bacon

"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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