Ability Quotes

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.

Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely on His wounded Son will experience relief.

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

If I could have a superpower, I would choose the ability to make people's heart stop, if I just point at them.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff.

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.

Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

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

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.

I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.