Qoutes

Different Quotes

Ability

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.

-Francis Bacon

I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

-Cicero

Skill to do comes of doing.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man, who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

-Thomas Jefferson

Better be proficient in one art than a smattered in a hundreds.

-Japanese Proverb

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

-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, co long is he determined not to do it; and consequently so long is it impossible to him that he should do it.

-Benedict Spinoza

Advice

A fool sometimes gives weighty advice.
-Nicolas Boileau

Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
-Robert Burton

A woman's advice is not worth much, but he who doesn't heed it is a fool.
-Pedro Calderon

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
-Cicero

We ask advice, but we mean approbations.
-Charles C. Colton

Advice is offensive; --because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
-Samuel Johnson

Advice is least heeded when most needed.
-English Proverb

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
-Oscar Wilde