Ability Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Assurance Confidence Happens Pace
Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Confidence comes by practice. It doesn't happen overnight. Nothing happens without hard work. — Seve Ballesteros Copy Share Image
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
