Ability Quotes
5560 quotes by 3394 authors
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Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
— Jack Nicklaus
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Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working…
— Joan Benoit
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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
— Bill Parcells
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When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet…
— Roger Ebert
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All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java…
— James Gosling
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what…
— Margaret Mead
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I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.
— Omarosa Manigault
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Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.
— Walter Mosley
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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to…
— Aristotle
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If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we…
— Ellen Langer
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we…
— Greg Plitt
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
— Seth Godin
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If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do the minimum and…
— Deepak Chopra
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The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful…
— Dalai Lama
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Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
— Napoleon Hill
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GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply…
— Linda Kaplan Thaler
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I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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