Ability Quotes
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
~Alexander Graham Bell
~Alexander Graham Bell
A pint can't hold a quart--if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
~Margaret Deland
~Margaret Deland
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
~Bob Woodward
~Bob Woodward
A sobering thought: What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
~Jane Wagner
~Jane Wagner
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~Stevie Wonder
~Stevie Wonder
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool--shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple--teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise--follow him.
~Lady Isabel Burton
~Lady Isabel Burton
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.
~Alice Hubbard
~Alice Hubbard
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
~Bob Uecker
~Bob Uecker
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
~Helen Keller
~Helen Keller
Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage afairs, and it is the affairs that produce the men.
~Catherine the Great
~Catherine the Great
Besides learning to see, there is another are to be learned--not to see what is not.
~Maria Mitchell
~Maria Mitchell
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kinds of bad training.
~Anna Freud
~Anna Freud
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
~Mary Lou Cook
~Mary Lou Cook
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
~John Wooden
~John Wooden
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."
~Paul Graham
~Paul Graham
Each person has his own safe place--running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources.
~Barbara Gordon
~Barbara Gordon
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
~Gail Hamilton
~Gail Hamilton
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
~Neil LaBute
~Neil LaBute
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.
~Lady Marquerite Blessington
~Lady Marquerite Blessington
Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant is in darkness.
~Hanna More
~Hanna More
God does not ask you ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.
~Mary Kay Ash
~Mary Kay Ash
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
~Niccolo Machiavelli
~Niccolo Machiavelli
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
~Bruce Jenner
~Bruce Jenner
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Helen Keller
~Helen Keller
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
~Charlie Gonzalez
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
~Martin Van Buren
~Martin Van Buren
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
~Haruki Murakami
~Haruki Murakami
I didn't want to be encumbered by what anyone else's abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.
~Thomas Keller
~Thomas Keller
I do not want to hear phony cries about budget restraint. The tax cuts for the rich rob us of our ability to have good programs.
~Eliot Engel
~Eliot Engel
I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can be found very close.
~Alice Walker
~Alice Walker
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
~Jennie Garth
~Jennie Garth
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~Henry David Thoreau
~Henry David Thoreau
I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
~Dwayne Johnson
~Dwayne Johnson
I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
~Wade Boggs
~Wade Boggs
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
~Lucille Ball
~Lucille Ball
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good--or there because they're lucky.
~Katharine Hepburn
~Katharine Hepburn
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous.So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
~Lena Horne
~Lena Horne
I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
~Skeet Ulrich
~Skeet Ulrich
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
~Confucius
~Confucius
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
~Xun Zi
~Xun Zi
If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, then that means he isn't very good.
~Helen Wills Moody
~Helen Wills Moody
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
~Dorothy Parker
~Dorothy Parker
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