Our Ability Quotes

320 quotes by 273 authors

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open… — John Lennon
We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours. — Barack Obama
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase… — Neal A. Maxwell
Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their… — Kent Nerburn
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as… — Aldo Leopold
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We… — Anchee Min
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. — Richard Yates
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. — Dan Brown
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from… — Fernando Pessoa
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come… — Muriel Barbery
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be… — Muriel Barbery
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own… — Thomas Merton
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
Know why people run marathons? â€¦Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles,… — Christopher McDougall
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other… — Margaret Mead
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. — Lisa Lutz

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