Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're… — Douglas Coupland
I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating. — Jim Butcher
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in… — Lisa Kleypas
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he… — Norah Vincent
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon… — James Howard Kunstler
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability… — Michael Jordan
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. — Frank Herbert
Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often… — Steig Larsson
Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. — Zig Ziglar
An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. — Suzanne Collins
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires… — Baltasar Gracian
Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a… — Zadie Smith
Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them… — Dorothy Koomson
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not… — Anne Michaels
Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know about… — Cassandra Clare
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my… — Ayn Rand
Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with… — M.F.K. Fisher
God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up. — Tullian Tchividjian
And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation,… — Cassandra Clare
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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