Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions,… — Vaclav Havel
And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying.… — Cressida Cowell
Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because… — Sharon Salzberg
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person… — Joyce Meyer
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness — Erich Fromm
Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than… — Earl Nightingale
I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you… — Haruki Murakami
Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run… — David Levithan
Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. — Haruki Murakami
It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything… — Cecelia Ahern
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see… — John Green
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve… — Jonathan Sacks
And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the… — Sylvia Plath
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for… — Darynda Jones
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each… — Og Mandino
The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them,… — Bernard Beckett
healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my… — David Levithan
I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again.… — Karen Chance
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at… — Sebastian Faulks
The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his… — Theodore Kaczynski
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. — Robert M. Pirsig
Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the… — S E Hinton
It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure… — Terence McKenna

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