Ability Quotes

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

I want people to appreciate talent and ability.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.

With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

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

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

You are the Creator of your reality... you were granted this ability. You have free will... you are an unlimited aspect, a portion of God... of the Creator... of All That Is.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.