Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Generosity should never exceed ability.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Guts win more games than ability.

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't.

Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

His lie ability is an asset

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

I admire Obama, and I like him. I think he has a great deal of talent. He should be applauded for his eloquence and for his ability to motivate millions.

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.

I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

I am sympathetic to the general form of Aristotle's view: the exercise of complex and more inclusive abilities is not anything in itself that is or necessarily should be valued over simple and less inclusive abilities. Rather, value depends on what the abilities are and the ends to which they are put.

I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life.