Ability Quotes

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With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes

Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz

The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal.
Soon we'll need a new definition.
- Alvin Toffler

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities,
great potential strength and ability.
Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
- Abdul Kalam

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize
a problem before it becomes an emergency.
- Arnold H. Glasow

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks,
and courage.
- Charles Luckman

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead
others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
- Thomas J. Watson

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams

Trust your ability!
- Itzhak Perlman

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability
to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time
and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls,
so I had to beat them with my mind.
- Martina Hingis

If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability,
experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
- Fred Perry

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others,
to bring them into the process.
- Jim Hodges

Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it.
- John B. Putnam Jr.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability
to investigate systematically and truly all that comes
under thy observation in life.
- Marcus Aurelius

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability
to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
- Arnold H. Glasow

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- Barbara de Angelis

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas A. Edison

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the
science of human relationships -
the ability of all peoples,
of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
- Bryant H. McGill

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess
an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
- Wilma Mankiller

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon
loses the ability to lead them.
- Robert Ley

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous,
generous, tolerant, and straightforward,
through which he opens the way to instruct others.
- Xun Zi

I have witnessed how education opens doors,
and I know that when sound instruction takes place,
students experience the joys of new-found knowledge
and the ability to excel.
- Daniel Akaka

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has
the energy and ability to make it work.
- William Feather

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways,
economists believe that our ability to compete internationally
is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
- Dennis Hastert

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator
pulls together more facts,
data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.
- Kenneth L. Pike

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability,
it was my mental ability.
- Bruce Jenner

The Fed has the ability to put money out,
it's got the ability to take money back in,
and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation
worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.
- Chuck Grassley

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your
ability to do what you say,
but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
- Bryant H. McGill

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
- Ovid

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.
- Anna Held

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability,
which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- Alfred North Whitehead

The leader of genius must have the ability to make
different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
- Adolf Hitler

God does not begin by asking our ability,
only our availability, and if we prove our dependability,
He will increase our capability.
- Neal A. Maxwell

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's
attitude in a given set of circumstances.
- Viktor E. Frankl

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal
has been my greatest asset.
- Jack Nicklaus

Literature does not exist in a vacuum.
Writers as such have a definite social function exactly
proportional to their ability as writers.
This is their main use.
- Ezra Pound

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write.
Learning to write is a useful exercise,
even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
- Walter Gilbert

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can,
and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
- William Eardley, IV

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.
- Ron Johnson

I hate tests.
It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
- Bill Paxton

I add this, that rational ability without education
has oftener raised man to glory and virtue,
than education without natural ability.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you're going to stick around in this business,
you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself,
whether consciously or unconsciously.
- Dennis Quaid

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know,
to overlook what is before their eyes,
was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
- W. G. Sebald

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to
do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil,
which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
- Jay Inslee

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie