Ability Quotes - page 7

Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge. (Pythagoras)
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. View quote
Germaine Greer
I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. View quote
David Rockefeller
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person. View quote
John Lennon
Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. View quote
Salma Hayek
It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. View quote
Thomas Paine
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties. View quote
Harold Wilson
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. View quote
Ayn Rand
[T]he intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and ... most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood. (Madison Grant)
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. View quote
Jane Wagner
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. View quote
William O. Douglas
Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. View quote
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. View quote
Ron Paul
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. View quote
Lou Holtz
Win with ability, not with numbers. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. View quote
Viktor Frankl
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents. View quote
Louise Bourgeois
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious. I don't think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention. (Ai Weiwei)
I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes. View quote
David Ricardo
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. View quote
Heywood Broun
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.. .The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. View quote
Edmund Burke