Ability Quotes, Sayings about Ability

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency - Arnold H. Glasgow.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability - Arthur Schopenhauer.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy - Arthur Schopenhauer.

Power is the ability to do good things for others - Brooke Astor.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability - Bruce Jenner.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits - Casey Stengel.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple - C Ceram.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us - Charlie Gonzalez.

Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks, and courage - Charles Luckman.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it - Charlotte Whitton.

A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything - Donald Kircher.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman - Edmund Burke.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature - Eric Hoffer.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study - Francis Bacon.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old - Franz Kafka.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities - Goethe.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short - Golda Meir.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability - Harry F. Banks.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life - Henry David Thoreau.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability - Henry Ford.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success - Henry Ward Beecher.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone - James Anthony Froude.

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

Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture - John Abbott.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun - John D Rockefeller.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions - John Hancock.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short - John Henry Newman.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there - John Wooden.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there - Josh Billings.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs - Karl Marx.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say: “No” - Lou Diamond Phillips.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it - Lou Holtz.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it - Malcolm S. Forbes.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason - Marya Mannes.

There is only one proof of ability, action - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else’s brain, who knows how good a player I might have been - Mickey Mantle.

Ability is a poor man’s wealth - M. Wren.

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity - Napoleon Bonaparte.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability - Oscar Wilde.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fibre to sustain the world - Phil Bredesen.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability - Prince Charles.

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space - Rebecca West.

Faith - the ability to believe the ridiculous for the sublime - Rich Bennett.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper - Robert Frost.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through - Rosalynn Carter.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one’s sporting ability - Russell Mark.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company - Seneca.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends - Sophie Tucker.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor - Tacitus.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability - Thomas Edison.

They are able because they think they are able - Vergil.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and to conquer them - Wendell Phillips.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability - William Feather.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm - Winston Churchill.

Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have - Zig Ziglar.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light - Zoroaster.

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