Ability Quotes
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The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.
Carl F. H. Henry
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Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
Jerry Bridges
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Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.
William Booth
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The answer is: the rational faculty, the ability to conceptualize. This was a giant step in evolution, although there were evidently many intermediate species between the apes and modern humans across a period of perhaps six million years.
Edwin A. Locke
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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.
Bergen Evans
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Power is the ability to make change.
Geneva Overholser
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The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.
Evan Esar
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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
Todd Solondz
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Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
Nicolas Cage
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There are leaders, and there are those who lead. Leaders are those who hold a position of power or authority. But those who lead are those who inspire us. And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.
Simon Sinek
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True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
Christian D. Larson
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We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.
Simon Sinek
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
Alfredo Jaar
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stephen Covey
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Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
Steven Amsterdam
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No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
Charles Lever
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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
Shawn Achor
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Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
Nick Cannon
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I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.
Ned Colletti
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Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that you think, "Oh, wow, this is just great." And you look at it a week later and you realize you'd been excited by the act of creation, but what you've created is not really exciting when you look at it in cold blood. And so that, to me, is a valuable lesson also.
Warren MacKenzie
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The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
Ray Bradbury
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A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength, and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength. This knowledge can be gained only by making a practical application of this information. We learn by doing-through practice the athlete becomes powerful.
Charles F. Haanel
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By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.
Stephen Covey