Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Ability.
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
L. Ron Hubbard
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill
Arthur Balfour
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Oliver Goldsmith
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann von Goethe
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Let today be the day you are no longer intimidated by the monumental size of the change you want, but instead be empowered by your ability to make that change one step at a time.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
Thomas Somerville
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather, The Treasure of
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle
Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan
You have the ability to choose your reactions.
A person is higher than an animal because of his ability to speak, but he is lower than an animal if he cannot properly use this ability.
Leo Tolstoy
The ability to passionately express opposing opinions is the greatest sign of a healthy democracy.
