Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human — Veronica Roth
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the… — Jonathan Carroll
Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take… — Veronica Roth
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one.… — Stephen King
Power is the ability to do good things for others. — Brooke Astor
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. — Elbert Hubbard
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their… — Confucius
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The… — Oprah Winfrey
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter. — Lee Iacocca
Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines. — Dag Hammarskjold
Mom used to quote Isaiah 64: about waiting on the Lord. It doesn't mean being complacent. It means understanding that he has a plan, and… — Tim Tebow
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. — Thomas A. Edison
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream… — John F. Kennedy
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence. — Og Mandino
Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster. — Winston Churchill
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. — Robert J. Shiller
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability… — Wang Yangming
You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in… — Og Mandino
Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable. — Twyla Tharp
We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities. — Joshua Waitzkin
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. — Steve Case
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down. — Michael Bloomberg
The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness. — Unknown Author
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. — Stephen Covey

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