Ability Quotes

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Ability without honor is useless.

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

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.

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

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

I'm confident with my ability.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

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

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Ability is sexless.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

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

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.