Skill Quotes

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

Hand, Eagle, Wounded

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Attitude, Excellence

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Wisdom, Ignorance

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Win, Fighting

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim Rohn

Money, Tell, Doctor

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

Give, Succeed, Bound

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Charles R. Swindoll

Education, Money, Attitude

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere

Great, History, Political

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Dan Gable

Great, Pride, Wrestling

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Strength, Impossible

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
Brian Tracy

Life, Work, Learn

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Brit Hume

Attitude, Fairness, Developed

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

Learning, Weed, Grow

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Dean Koontz

Life, Everyone, Succeed

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke

Struggles, Nerves, Helper

Masochism is a valuable job skill.
Chuck Palahniuk

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
Ambrose Bierce

Able, Left, Equal

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke

Nerves, Helper, Antagonist

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

Simple, Sacrifice, Place

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Peter Drucker

Good, Decisions, Making

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Ability, Hide

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

Experience, Passion, Force

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

Love, Work, Together

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

Art, Able, Chance

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Thomas Fuller

Strength, Ship, Tis

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian

Great, Waiting, Luck

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Thomas Fuller

Antiquity, Inclines

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Guy de Maupassant

Women, Liars, Wonderful

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
Henry Rollins

Ideas, Concerned, Impact

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant

Trying, Between, York

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