Ability Quotes - page 2

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. (William James)
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. View quote
William Hazlitt
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. View quote
Norman Mailer
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. View quote
Fred Perry
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. (Serge Lang)
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. View quote
Rahul Dravid
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. View quote
Toni Morrison
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. View quote
Winston Churchill
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. (Saul Bellow)
Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. View quote
Karl Marx
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald