Ability Quotes

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. (Plautus)
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. View quote
Winston Churchill
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. View quote
Henry Ford
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. View quote
Douglas Adams
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. View quote
Robert Frost
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. View quote
Frederick Douglass
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them... View quote
Evelyn Waugh
They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform. View quote
William Shakespeare
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. View quote
Thor Heyerdahl
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. View quote
David Bohm
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. View quote
Bob Marley
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. (Joseph Joubert)
I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed. View quote
Joseph Haydn
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. View quote
Franz Kafka
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). View quote
James Thurber