Ability Quote by Edmund Burke

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most…

— Erik Erikson

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt

— Harry F Banks

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is fit for a man to know his own abilities and weaknesses, and not think himself obliged to imitate all that he thinks…

— Robert Boyle

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of…

— Baltasar Gracian

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what…

— John Steinbeck

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and…

— John Dewey

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

— Ptolemy

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in…

— Condoleezza Rice