Thought for Today

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."

~~~~~ Lowell Thomas

Thought for Today

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

~~~~~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Thought for Today

"I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so."

~~~~~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

Thought for Today

"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."

~~~~~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Thought for Today

"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."

~~~~~ Robert Shea

Thought for Today

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."

~~~~~ Lowell Thomas

Thought for Today

"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."

~~~~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Thought for Today

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."

~~~~~ Lowell Thomas

Thought(s) for Today

"The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them."

~~~~~ John Adair

"As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln – just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history."

~~~~~ Barack Hussein Obama

Thought for Today

"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal."

~~~~ Charles Buxton

Thought for Today

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

~~~~~ Raymond Chandler

Thought for Today

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

~~~~~ John Wooden

Thought for Today

"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

~~~~~ Elbert Hubbard