Ability Quotes - page 12

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself. (Jean de La Fontaine)
No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances. View quote
Louise L. Hay
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. View quote
Arnold H. Glasow
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him. View quote
Stokely Carmichael
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection. View quote
Neil Strauss
If you give people tools, and they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. (Bill Gates)
A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class. View quote
Damon Knight
Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots. View quote
George Alec Effinger
Ability is a poor man's wealth. View quote
John Wooden
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. View quote
John Wooden
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death. View quote
Peter Greenaway
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. View quote
Lascelles Abercrombie
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. View quote
Erich Fromm
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. (Erich Fromm)
While Hitler ... had an eye for any tactical opportunity [that] was offered him, he still lacked the ability to assess [the] practicality of a plan. View quote
Erich von Manstein
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. View quote
Brian Tracy
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. View quote
Brian Tracy
I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. View quote
Robert Redford