Ability Quotes
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... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.
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The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.
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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
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I don't define myself by my body's ability to execute gorgeous asana anymore. I'm all about taking care of my temple and understanding that its requirements change with age and time.
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There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.
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I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.
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Power is the ability not to have to please.
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One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
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Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.
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The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
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What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Look, I think if you've got a niche portfolio or just operating in one country, like the United States, your ability to absorb the volatility is much less.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
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The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
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The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found.
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." "Let God's promises shine on your problems." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
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If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!
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No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.
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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
