Serve the Lord with what you have — your substance, strength, knowledge, and ability

God gave you the knowledge and ability for you to advance His Kingdom through your work

When you know your purpose in life, then by faith you know God will enable you to do it

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

It is easier to appear worthy of positions that we have not got, than of those that we have.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

We are not all able to do all things.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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

If you cannot accomplish a thing, leave it and pass to another which you can accomplish.

What one has to do, usually can be done.