Top 1200 Ability Quotes & Sayings

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s impossible to measure that ability or give it an economic value, it’s never taken seriously.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

I check all the boxes. You have a look, in-ring ability, the ability to speak and communicate. I have all that, plus experience.

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man.

I've always had that confidence in my performance ability and my ability to speak in character.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

I've shown I have the ability to reduce spending, I've shown I have the ability to reduce onerous regulations, and I've shown that I have the ability to fight for and restore our privacy and our personal freedoms.

Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

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

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation.

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.