Ability Quotes

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Guts win more games than ability.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

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

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.