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Inspirational Quotes on Ability

A Select Collection of Inspirational Quotes on Ability

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

Albert Einstein: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Henry David Thoreau: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Mahatma Gandhi: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Soren Kierkegaard: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Thomas Edison: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

Abraham H. Maslow: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Brenda Francis: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.

T. S. Eliot: Inspirational Quotes on Ability
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

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