能力   [Ability]

要做就做到最好。

Just do what you do best.

雷德·奥尔巴克  Red Auerbach

 

自然的能力就像自然的植物，需要通过学习加以修整。

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

费朗西斯·培根  Francis Bacon

 

我原以为他是个有出息的年轻人，可现在看来，他只是一个爱许愿的年轻人。[此指温斯顿·邱吉尔]

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.[Speaking of Winston Churchill]

亚瑟·詹姆斯·鲍尔弗  Arthur James Balfour

 

知道自己不能做什么远比知道自己能做什么重要。

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do.

露西尔·鲍尔 Lucille Ball

 

如果没有机会，能力就一无用处。

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

拿破仑·波拿巴 Napoleon Bonaparte

 

如果没有尊严，任何能力都将一无益处。

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

安德鲁·卡内基  Andrew Carnegie

 

聪明来自理解，常被继承。天才来自理性和想象，难得继承。

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

塞缪尔·泰勒·科尔里奇 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

让真正的天才在学校下苦功，等于让赛马拉脚踏车。

To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

查尔斯·凯莱布·科尔顿  Charles Caleb Colton

 

成功的首要条件是具备一种能力，即不厌其类地将体力和脑力用在同一个问题上。

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing very.

托马斯·A·爱迪生   Thomas A·Edison

 

大事往往赋予那些能证明自己具有超越做小事的能力的人。

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生   Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

极具天赋者易找，能力均衡者难寻

People with great gifts are easy to find , but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生   Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

狐狸诡计多端，刺猬只有一招，但这一招是最绝的。

The fox has many tricks .The hedgehog has but one .But that is the best of all.

德西迪里厄斯·伊拉兹马斯   Desiderius Erasmus

 

有人活在梦幻世界，有人直面现实生活，还有人将其中的一种变为另一种。

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.

道格拉斯·埃弗里特  Douglas Everett

 

马路得好时，我不会停下来喂它糖吃

When my horse is running good , I don’t stop to give him sugar.

威廉·福克纳   William Faulkner

 

只要在我之前有人干过，我也能干

Others have done it before me . I can , too .

约翰·方斯下士   Corporal John Faunce

 

能力绝对赶不上对能力的要求

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it

马尔科姆·S·福布斯   Malcolm S. Forbes

 

一个人来自星星监狱还是哈佛大学，对我来说完全一样。我们雇的是人，不是他的历史

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man , not his history.

亨利·福特  Henry Ford

 

无论你认为自己行还是认为自己不行，都是对的！

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t you’re right!

亨利·福特  Henry Ford

 

我们在生活的道路上走得越远，越知道自己能力的有限

As we advance in life , we learn the limits of our abilities.

詹姆斯·A·弗劳德  James A. Froude

 

我知道自己的能力远不止在摄影机前站完余生

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

珍妮·加思  Jennie Garth

 

风浪总是站在能力最强的航海家一边

The winds and waves are always one the side of the ablest navigators.

爱德华·吉本  Edward Gibbon

 

我们的工作是我们的能力的展示

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities

约翰！沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

生有可用之才的人，将在施展这种才华中得到最大幸福

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it

约翰！沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

人们一直将生活比做赛跑，但这个比喻的升华在于，我们注意到跑得最快的往往是最难控制且最有可能偏离方向的。对于持有者来说，超强的能力往往没有一般的能力实用。

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.

奥利弗·戈德史密斯  Oliver Goldsmith

 

有件东西极其罕见，比能力还要少见，那就是识别能力的能力

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

罗伯特·哈夫  Robert Half

 

每一个人都对能力范围内的一切好事负责，没有人说出谁的范围最大

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.

盖尔·汉密尔顿   Gail Hamilton

 

千万不要告诉年轻人什么事情不能做。上帝一直等待着有人去完成那件他根本不知道是不可能的事情，也许已经等待了许多个世纪

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done . do  may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

约翰·安德鲁·霍姆斯   John Andrew Holmes

 

既然生命是行动和热情，人们应该冒着生命危险分离时代的热情和行动

As life is action and passion , it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time , at the peril of being not to have lived.

奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯   Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

我不会接受低于运动员力所能及的最佳成绩……他有权期待我能为他、为全队争取最佳成绩

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing……and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

卢·霍尔茨  Lou Holtz

 

有能力是好事，但发现他人能力的能力才是真正的检验

It is a fine thing to have ability , but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

埃尔伯特·哈伯德   Elbert Hubbard

 

既能干又不令人讨厌，这一点很难作到

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

金·哈伯德   Kin Hubbard

 

能力的高超之处在于彻底了解事物的真正价值，彻底了解我们所处时代的天才

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

拉·罗什富科  La Rochefoucauld

 

知道如何隐藏自己的能力是一项了不起的技巧

To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.

拉·罗什富科  La Rochefoucauld

 

当然，我们并非只满足于赢球。我们一直打得很好，但我们认为，我们还可以打得更好

Certainly we’re not satisfied with just winning games. We’ve been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

马里奥·勒米厄   Mario Lemieux

 

并不是所有的人同时拥有好运气与判断力

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

泰特斯·李维  Titus Livy

 

上帝并未赋予你去从事力所不及的事情的渴望

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

奥里森·斯韦特·马登   Orison Swett Marden

 

对你尚未得到的与已经拥有的东西时行分析，是事业的必要组成部分

Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

格雷斯·穆尔   Grace Moore

 

能力无性别之分

Ability is sexless

克里斯特贝尔·潘克赫斯特   Christabel PanKhurst

 

办事能力就是快速决定之后让别人完成工作

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work

约翰·G·波拉德  John G. Pollard

 

山外有山，人外有人

Behind an able man, there are always other able men.

中国谚语   Chinese proverb

 

如果别无选择，人们就能够做到

When one must, one can.

犹太谚语   Yiddish proverb

 

如果有什么东西可以称做天才，它主要是指我们专主于事物，始终将其放在心上，并对其进行准确的全面观察的能力

If there be any thing 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.

西奥多·赖克   Theodor Reik

 

要用这样的心态告诉自己：“眼下就是一个从未有过的可以使我庆贺自己的力量与能力的机会，我完全可以从中尽情地施展自己。”

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, “Here is an opportunity of me to celebrate like never before, my own power. my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”

安东尼·罗宾斯   Anthony Robbins

 

如果我没有理解错的话，国家需要也要求进行大胆的、坚持不懈的试验。常识是用一种方法先去尝试，如果失败了，那就坦然承认，然后再去试其他的办法是否可行。但最重要的是一定要尝试去做。

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands told, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above ,try something.

西奥多·罗斯福   Theodore Roosevelt

 

智举从不费大劲

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort

约翰·拉斯金   John Ruskin

 

爱加技巧必有大成

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

约翰·拉斯金   John Ruskin

 

天才几乎可以弥补各种教育缺失，教育却无法弥补天才缺乏

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.

亚瑟·叔本华   Arthur Schopenhauer

 

没有能力就能出名的唯一途径是牺牲

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

乔治·萧伯纳   George Bernard Shaw

 

天才不是逼出来的，你也无法将猿猴变成市议员

A genius can’t be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

托马斯·萨默维尔   Thomas Somerville

 

人的能力总会有某个方面的不足，就像你睡觉时被子太短一样。你拉到肩上就会露出脚，遮住脚时却盖不住肩膀

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 you feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

威廉·坦普尔爵士   Sir William Temple

 

最好的水手可以在风口浪尖上游刃有余，从最大的障碍中攫取动力

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

亨利·戴维·梭罗   Henry David Thoreau

 

一切努力均需要走完最后路程、制定最后计划、忍受最后辛劳的能力。如果我们以完成者的身份面对未来的话，战斗到底的精神是我们必须拥有的特性之一

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hour’s toil. The fight to the finish spirit is one of the characteristics we must possess if we are to face the future as finishers.

来源不详   Source unknown

 

他们有能力，因为他们认为自己有能力

They are able because the think they are able

维吉尔   Virgil

 

世人几乎不关心他或她知道什么；他们关注的是她或她能够做什么

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is that a man or woman it able to do that counts.

布克·T·华盛顿   Booker T. Washington

 

女人无论做什么，都必须做得比男人好两倍，这样人们才会认为她们跟男人所做的一半好。所幸的是，要做到这一点并不难

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

夏洛特·惠顿   Charlotte Whitton

 

人人都有能力，区别在于如何使用

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

史蒂维·旺德   Stevie Wonder

 

能力可以让你到达顶峰，但一直守在顶峰却需要性格

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

约翰·伍顿   John wooden

 

能力是穷人的财富

Ability is poor man’s wealth

M·雷恩   M. Wren

 

你是世界上唯一能够使用自己能力的人

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability

齐格·齐格勒   Zig Ziglar