Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Ability.
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.
Agatha Christie
They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas Alva Edison
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar
People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.
Paul Hersey
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder
Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
Martha Grimes
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
Jodi Picoult
He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude
Aristotle
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Lucille Ball
Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
Mario Lemieux
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
Christopher Hitchens
Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway.
Edward Abbey, Confessions of a B
A bird perched on a branch is never afraid of the branch breaking. Her trust is in her wings.
Anonymous
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Raymond Hull
Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
L. Ron Hubbard
