Ability Quotes

5560 quotes by 3394 authors

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot. — James Patterson
A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of… — T.H. White
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. — Michael Jordan
Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle. — Daisaku Ikeda
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken. — Muriel Barbery
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. — Dan Brown
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive… — Fred Rogers
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give… — Andy Andrews
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from… — Fernando Pessoa
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down… — Cecelia Ahern
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come… — Muriel Barbery
When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability… — Donald Miller
Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as… — Cecelia Ahern
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain… — Bill Bryson
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be… — Muriel Barbery
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability… — Malcolm Gladwell
Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred… — Haruki Murakami
You... were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around... Living… — William P. Young
I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam… — Maggie Stiefvater

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