Ability Quotes - page 5

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. (Oprah Winfrey)
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. View quote
Brian Tracy
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. View quote
Stevie Wonder
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. View quote
Carroll Quigley
One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes. View quote
Carroll Quigley
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. View quote
Johann Georg Hamann
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. View quote
Henry Ford
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old. (Franz Kafka)
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. View quote
Milan Kundera
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity. View quote
Michael E. Porter
In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty. View quote
Roger Moore
I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde) View quote
Timothy Zahn
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. (Junot Diaz)
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives. View quote
James Heckman
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world. View quote
Zack Snyder
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. View quote
Yehuda Berg