Ability Quotes

Opportunities will always be there but the level you'd be able to fulfil those opportunities depends on you being fully present and working to the best of your ability.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

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

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.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.

Being born with a disability, can sometimes be a struggle, but it is the ability to overcome such a challenge, that makes it so worth the fight. NEVER GIVE UP!!!

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.

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.

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

With more success comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

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.

Always remember... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.

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

Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.

The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Our ability to protect our families is at stake.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

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.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.