The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is
able to do that counts.
— Booker T. Washington
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can that.
— Norman Vincent Peale
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
— Stevie Wonder
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence
falls short.
— John Henry Newman
They are able because they think they are able.
— Virgil
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
— Edward Gibbon
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
— Publilius Syrus
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than
education without natural ability.
— Marcus T. Cicero
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
— Malcolm S. Forbes
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the
genius of the age in which we live.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but
no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
