Ability Quotes

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.

I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

Generosity should never exceed ability.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

The thing about India is that while they will miss Sachin, they have the ability to put out another batsman nearly as good.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.