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The person
born with a talent they are meant to use will find their
greatest happiness in using it.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
People are so
constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they
see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
Life has been
compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing,
that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the
most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have
always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate
ones.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish
Author, Poet, Playwright
There is
something that is much more scarce, something rarer than
ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
-- Robert Half
American Businessman, Founder
of Robert Half & Associates
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Every person
is responsible for all the good within the scope of his
abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere
is the largest.
-- Gail Hamilton
1833-1896, American Writer,
Humorist
Never tell a
young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been
waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the
impossible to do that very thing.
-- John Andrew Holmes
As life is
action and passion, it is required of a man that he should
share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of
being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
It is a fine
thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability
in others is the true test.
-- Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author,
Publisher
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