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Find Yourself a Useful Ability Quote

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History is replete with stories of people who overcame their handicap to achieve their goals. All you need is some inspiration. Each 'ability' quote on this page motivates you to follow your dreams, without counting your disabilities. Find your favorite ability quote and make it the motto of your life.

Malcolm Forbes
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

John Abbott
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

Denis Waitley
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

David Allen
Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.

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