Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton

• enthusiasm
• success
• ability

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. John Stevenson

• work
• ability
• job
• ambition
• discipline

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. William Matthews

• focus
• talent
• ability

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

• ability

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

• ability
• potential
• accomplishment

You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility. Zig Ziglar

• ability

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. Roy L. Smith

• discipline
• talent
• ability
• practice

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best. William Gladstone

• priorities
• ability

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

• attitude
• ability

The man of superior abilities always finds admirers, go where he will. Alexandre Dumas

• ability

This is the source.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Andrew Carnegie

• ability
• honor

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can. George Allen

• talent
• ability