Ability Quotes

There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either...

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself,...

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better tha...

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer play...

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because...

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little...

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for ...

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its abili...

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pai...

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisio...

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer....

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out o...

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already d...

Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done H...

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at ...

In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the...

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed...

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think ...

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, ...

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, ...

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lack...

CHAPTER VIConcerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And AbilityLET no one b...

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...

Good is not good where better is expected.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ab...

The only way round is through.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed o...

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the off...

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Good is not good where better is expected.

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...

Good is not good where better is expected.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams of childhood trauma—that becoming a...

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriag...

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lea...

They are able who think they are able.

They are able because they think they are able.

The best is the enemy of the good.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to...

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.