<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ability - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is it men or women who committhe most rapes?Is it men or women whovote for the most executions?Is it men or women who promotewar, vote for war, kill in war?Is it men or women who as'talk show hosts' allow no talk?Is it men or women whoare more often pedophiles?Is it men or women who torturelab animals more?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/92]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/92</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/93]]></link><description><![CDATA[All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/93</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/94]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/94</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/98]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/98</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/99]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/99</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is a poor man's wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is a poor man's wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108]]></link><description><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/91]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/91</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/68]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/68</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/69]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/69</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/70]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/70</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/74]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/74</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/76]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/76</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/77]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/77</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/79]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/79</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/80]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/80</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/81]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/81</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/82]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/82</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83]]></link><description><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every able man, there are always other able men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/84]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every able man, there are always other able men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/84</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you count all your assets you always show a profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/85]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you count all your assets you always show a profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/85</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/87]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/87</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/89]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/89</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43</guid></item></channel></rss>