The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.
Ability Quotes
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Ability without honor is useless.
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.
The superior man is distressed by his want of ability.
What you have in mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here. Why wait until the shadows of death?
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they do not know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.