不远万里来到中国(完整版)英语名人名言分类之Ability(能力篇)

2021年1月26日发(作者：福州话)
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 won't 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 one's
ability.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(1613 - 1680)
,
Maxims, 1665
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can
become famous without ability.