Ability Quotes

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.

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

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell.

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.

So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.