I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

—Henry David Thoreau

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.

—George Bernard Shaw

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.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

—Baltasar Gracián

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