Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast… — David Mitchell
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. — Twyla Tharp
To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to… — Susan Sontag
I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. — Sylvia Plath
I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the… — Megan Hart
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than… — Paulo Coelho
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You’re probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan? But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other’s… — Rick Riordan
You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible. — John C. Maxwell
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space,… — Paulo Coelho
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every… — James Frey
Responsibility is the ability to respond. — Lucille Ball
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient… — Frederick Douglass
It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a… — Miyamoto Musashi
My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them. — Maggie Stiefvater
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so… — Junot Diaz
In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle. — Deepak Chopra
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. — Erich Fromm
I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity… — Christopher Paolini
I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.… — Timothy Zahn
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability. — Vernor Vinge
The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave. — Demi Lovato
This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware,… — J R Ward
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. — Cinda Williams Chima

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