John Wooden

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”


John Wooden

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.


Mary Lou Retton

“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.”


Robert A. Heinlein

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. “


Martha Grimes

“We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”


Baltasar Gracian

“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”


Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”


William Feather

“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.”


Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”


Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”