Life Quotes... Ability

“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it.  What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it.  Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.”
                                                Andre Gide

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
                                                Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle

"He is able who thinks he is able."
                                                Buddha

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
                                                Laurence J. Peter

“One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.”
                                                Thomas Fuller

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