ability quotes

26 quotes

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

Robert Kiyosaki

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

Narendra Modi

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Joyce Meyer

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Elbert Hubbard

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Joe Biden

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Samuel Johnson

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

Lou Holtz

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Russell M. Nelson

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Francis Bacon

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Chanakya

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Henry Ford

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

Golda Meir

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

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Confucius