Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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.
The king is the man who can.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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.
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