Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. — Carl Jung
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected. — Baltasar Gracian
Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,. — Allan Sherman
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into. — Miguel de Cervantes
Our body's natural detoxification system is designed to support our health by eliminating waste products from our metabolism and from environmental toxins. Like any other… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first… — Charles de Lint
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities. — Honore de Balzac
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity. — Nikki Giovanni
The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it. — Eric Hoffer
It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,… — Eric Hoffer
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. — Barbara Kingsolver
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying… — Samuel Johnson
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a… — Eleanor Roosevelt
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. — George Herbert
It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world. — Rudyard Kipling
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and,… — Tom Peters
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. — Arthur Guiterman
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. — Edmund Burke

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