Ability Quotes
5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors
-
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes…
— Andrew Sullivan
-
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
— Guy Finley
-
Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored…
— Ari Kiev
-
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the…
— Emmet Gowin
-
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work…
— Joyce Tenneson
-
Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can…
— Joan D. Chittister
-
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is…
— Jeff Greenfield
-
From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life…
— Daniel J. Siegel
-
In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.
— Eric Heiden
-
God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to…
— Karen Walker
-
After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen…
— Martin Feldstein
-
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what…
— Bob Jones, Sr.
-
The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability…
— Pope John Paul II
-
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
-
There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
— Baltasar Gracian
-
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
— Baltasar Gracian
-
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
— Abbott Lawrence Lowell
-
The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision.
— John Wooden
-
Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase…
— William J. Clinton
-
Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
— Satyajit Ray
-
Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work…
— Jill Vialet
-
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
-
The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
-
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
— Immanuel Kant
Who Wrote These Ability Quotes
3,394 authors contributed a total of 5,560 Ability Quotes, led by these top contributors: