Ability Quotes · Page 36

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

— William Feather

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

— Bill Parcells

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

— Steve Daines

Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.

— H. W. Brands

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Harvey Mackay

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

— Marcus Ybarra

Understand that you have the ability to get healthy and stay healthy.

— Christiane Northrup

Tennis was more than a passing interest, but I found my ability didn't measure up to these West Coast kids who had…

— Kevin Warsh

For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me…

— Ashley Roberts

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new…

— Lynn Swann

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and…

— Stephen King

“Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time you were an embryo, and will keep doing…

— James Trefil

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

— Matt Mullenweg

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine,…

— Chris Gardner

Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability…

— Brett Morgen

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy,…

— Cory Booker

What separates people that create from the people that don't is just one's ability to take action despite the fear, you know?…

— Antony Hegarty

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other…

— Reid Hoffman

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

— Wendell Berry

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still…

— Christina Baker Kline

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to…

— Eric Hoffer

The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life. To me,…

— LaVell Edwards

The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity…

— Tina Brown

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

— Randall Dale Adams

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

— Jeanne Damas

Once any of us conclude- 'That's just the way I am,' we give up our ability to change.

— Donald L. Hallstrom

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

— Laurence J. Peter

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

— Tina Brown

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

— Matthew Simpson

Whatever my role is, I'm just going to go out there and do it to the best of my ability.

— Chris Hogan

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

— Haruki Murakami

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

— Fred Perry

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

— Charles E. Wilson

Life throws us curve-balls all the time. We just need to practice hitting them.

— Matthew Van Zyl

When LOVE and SKILL work together, then expect a MASTERPIECE :)))))

— Anonymous

You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best.

— Derek Landy

Donald Trump has this ability to reach out and touch the beast inside so many people.

— Allan Nairn

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

— Aries Spears

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

— Mahatma Gandhi