Ability Quotes (46) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Ability. Faculty, talent denote qualifications or powers. Ability is a general word for power, native or acquired, enabling one to do things well: a person of great ability; ability in mathematics.
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
~ Brian Tracy
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
~ Brian Tracy
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
~ Brian Tracy
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
~ Wayne Dyer
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
~ Stephen Covey (1932 -)
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
~ Les Brown
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
~ Tony Robbins (1960 -)
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.
~ Denis Waitley
I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
~ Yousef Karsh
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.
~ William Raspberry
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
~ Whitney M. Young (1921 - 1971)
One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us.
~ Virgil A. Kraft
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community--these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
~ Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877 - 1965)
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
~ Vartan Gregorian
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
~ Tony Robbins (1960 -)
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
~ Thomas Watson (1874 - 1956)
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
~ Joyce Meyer
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
~ Stephen Hawking
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~ Robert Frost
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry
~ David Thoreau
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
~ Napoleon Hill
“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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
“You have the ability to choose your reactions.”
~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.”
~ Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential
“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
~ Rosalynn Carter
“Ability without honor is useless.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
“ In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.”
~ Kimberly Derting, The Essence
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
~ Thomas A. Edison
“Not all can believe anything they want to,
because not all have the ability to believe.”
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.”
~ Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge
“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author.”
~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependability, He will in crease our capability.”
~ Neal A. Maxwell
“Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage. ”
~ Charles Luckman
Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.
~ Charles Fillmore
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
~ Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
~ John Wooden (1910 -)
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
~ Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
~ Zig Ziglar
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