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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest
happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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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
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
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