Ability Quotes · Page 75

“Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

People are saying I hold and spoil, but you don't get to win Olympic gold without a bit of power and ability.

— James DeGale

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

— Mitch Albom

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

— Irving Chernev

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

— Meryl Streep

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

— Kevin Shelley

If you have the ability to use your voice, then you have to use it.

— Alex Consani

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

— Bill Watterson

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly…

— Michael Chabon

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the…

— Stephen LaBerge

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

I know I'm not a good actor; I just don't have that natural ability to perform when someone narrates a scene. What…

— Arvind Swami

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of…

— Gene Sharp

The size of your problem is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. Don't overestimate your problems and underestimate yourself.

— Anonymous

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define…

— Glenn Greenwald

It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you…

— Maya Hawke

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time…

— Joseph Roth

I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an…

— Tom Ford

But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for…

— Garry Hynes

I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after…

— Arthur Frommer

You learn so many different skills on the show «Merlin». You're constantly asked to do green-screen, horse riding, comedy scenes, dramatic scenes,…

— Colin Morgan

Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us…

— Susan Collins

Playing so many important games in a prestigious competition like the Champions League, I have experience to call upon and I'm thankful…

— Iker Casillas

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

— George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

— Amanda Palmer

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Aleksandar Kolarov has technical ability, but I'm not sure he has what it takes defensively.

— Jermaine Jenas

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

— Roma Tearne

There's never been a conscious decision to sound like anybody else. I can't mimic, I don't have that ability.

— KK

You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

— Tyler Ward

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

— Vince Lombardi

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

— Wendell Berry

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

— Kate Braverman

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

— Andy Stanley

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

— David Slade

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

— Edmund Burke

Don't limit yourself ever! Be all that you can be and always work to your fullest capacity.

— Anonymous

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

— Rick Mears