Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.

If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.

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.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for by raising your taxes and providing the requirements on individuals where they have the ability to pay, such as we determine as appropriate, then the insurance issue doesn't come up.

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

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.

If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

If you touch me, I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how bad ass you really are.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.

I have an ability that I've already honed in on to get better.

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

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.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.