Ability Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Expectations are often invisible unless we specifically look for them.”

— Franklin Veaux

The purest kind of attraction is the one that is unexpected.

— Anonymous

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

— Derren Brown

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

— John Updike

“Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is superficial.”

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

— Chris Shiflett

For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many…

— Jean Giono

If we can transcend the ego, we will find that people are instinctively more attracted to us, even though we are no longer trying…

— Senoraroy

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

— Anonymous

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible…

— William Godwin