"It must be that to govern a nation……" — W. Somerset Maugham
"It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability."
More Ability Quotes
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our… — Julian Assange
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos… — Rowan Atkinson
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike… — Rowan Atkinson
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,… — Margaret Atwood
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under… — Marcus Aurelius
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital… — Joe Baca