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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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