Ability Quote by Leon Battista Alberti Download Open image “As ability goes, so goes our fortune.” — Leon Battista Alberti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Fortune Wealth
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
