英语名人名言分类之Ability(能力篇).docVIP

ABILITY (Related Subjects: Talent, Competence) I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me wont amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 1867 The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test. Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011 The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that. David Nicholls, One Day, 2010 It is a great ability to be able to conceal ones ability. Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665 Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devils Disciple (1901) act 3 I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.