Ability Quotes · Page 33

Parisians have this ability to be cool and chic without appearing to have made an effort.

— Jeanne Damas

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

— Harvey Mackay

Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Always work hard. Your natural ability can only get you so far.

— Marcus Ybarra

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

— Kevin Pollak

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt”

— George Ilian

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

— David Gemmell

I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a…

— Brad Garrett

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to…

— Robin McKinley

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to…

— Magnus Carlsen

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away…

— John Foster Dulles

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or…

— Ezra Pound

“I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster,…

— Laura Pritchett

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry…

— Christopher Reeve

“If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding…

— Dan Pearce

Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. Your character will grow; your faith…

— David O. McKay

At times we are thrown suddenly into positions that seem too big for us and for which we have little preparation. The…

— Robert E. Wells

Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing…

— Tom Platz

Comparing Isco to Zidane isn't ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities.…

— Carlo Ancelotti

Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted…

— Justin Menkes

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained,…

— Seneca the Younger

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,…

— Edmund Burke

The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill…

— Bernard Beckett

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a…

— Robert Ballard

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

— William Feather

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

— Bruce Jenner

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

— Jim Rohn

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

— Warren Buffett

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

— James Haskell

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

— Cinda Williams Chima

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

— Alexandra Petri

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

— John Denver

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

You can do anything. Put the time in to do it, and you could do it.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

— Paul Newman

Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

— Neil Gaiman

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

— Robert Redford

or those who have one, please use your voice. So many of us don't have that ability.

— Christy Turlington