Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Ability

Ability

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.--John Henry Newman
Ability is of little account without opportunity.--Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.--Lou Holtz
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.–-John Wooden
Ability without honor is useless.--Marcus Tullius Cicero
All of us are, to some extent, victims of what we are. We are not limited by our imaginations, but by our ability to do what we imagine. We are not too often limited by our abilities as much as by circumstances. And we are not as often limited by our circumstances as much as by the lack of the will to respond.--Dee Bowman (That's Life!)
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.--Norman Vincent Peale
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.--Lou Dorfsman
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.--Roy L. Smith
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.--John Wooden
Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.--Gracie Allen
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.--Gail Hamilton
Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.--Roger Babson
I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.--Madame de Stael
If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents.--Hortense Canady
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities … and the greater strength of our nation.--John F. Kennedy (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
The measure of a man sir, is not in money, position, station or possessions. These things mean nothing. The measure of a man is in his character, wisdom, ability, aliveness, intimacy, creativity, courage, fearlessness, perspective, independence and maturity.
You seem terribly impressed with the former sir, which suggests you are seriously lacking in the latter.--Mark W. B. Brinton
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and this attain superiority in nothing.--Baltaser Gracian (The Art of Worldly Wisdom)
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.--Sam Harris (Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion)
Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.--Robert Heller
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.--Cicero
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honour.--Andrew Carnegie
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.--George E. Allen
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.--Zig Ziglar
System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.--Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.--Lord Chesterfield (Letters to His Son)
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.--Robert Half
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.--Fred A. Manske, Jr.
We all have the extraordinary coded within us ... waiting to be released.--Jean Houston
We rate ability in people by what they finish, not by what they begin!--Robert J. Strand (Moments for Marvelous Mothers)
When I walk into a room I assume I have to prove myself. I know that. I'm accustomed to that. But I also know I can prove myself.--Yvonne Brathwaite Bruke (former lawyer, congress woman)
You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.--Rosalynn Carter