Ability

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  • There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Keep cool and you command everybody.
        Louis de Saint-Just   Best?
  • A cult is a religion with no political power.
        Tom Wolfe   Best?
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
        Helen Keller   Best?
  • Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.
        Thomas Bailey Aldrich   Best?
  • Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
        Steve Prefontaine   Best?
  • Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
        Dennis Kucinich   Best?
  • The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • All is for the best in the best of all possible ways.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
        Milan Kundera   Best?
  • Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.
        Paul Graham   Best?
  • Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.
        Linda R. Dominguez   Best?
  • Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
        Black Elk, Native American   Best?
  • The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour [is] the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.
        Arthur Miller   Best?
  • It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
        Shirley Chisholm   Best?
  • Fashion changes, style remains.
        Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel   Best?
  • Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
        A. E. Housman   Best?
  • There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
        Booker T. Washington   Best?
  • The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
        Martha Beck   Best?
  • The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
        Ninon de Lenclos   Best?
  • Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
        Franz Kafka   Best?
  • There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
        Pablo Picasso   Best?
  • The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
        Benjamin Disraeli   Best?
  • Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
        Thomas H. Huxley   Best?
  • Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
        Clint Eastwood   Best?
  • Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
        Clint Eastwood   Best?
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
        Herodotus   Best?

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