Ability Quotes

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Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within.… — Goswami Kriyananda
True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love. — Christian D. Larson
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him… — Francis Frangipane
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what… — Lance Armstrong
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can. — George Matthew Adams
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual… — Eckhart Tolle
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it. — Poul Anderson
Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza
Accountability breeds response-ability. — Stephen Covey
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. — Alan Price
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual… — Richard M. Nixon
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -… — Thomas A. Edison
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more… — Ayn Rand
Power is the ability not to have to please. — Elizabeth Janeway
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. — Joshua Reynolds

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