Ability Quotes

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Wife, Able, Brilliant

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.
Winston Churchill

Tomorrow, Happen, Why

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Education, Losing, Almost

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

Love, Care, Themselves

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

God, Made, Exist

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

Potential, Build

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Others, Themselves, Describe

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam

Great, God, Strength

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison

Freedom, Important, Reality

Politics is 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.
Winston Churchill

Politics, Tomorrow, Happen

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength, Hurt, Character

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

Money, Hope, Experience

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.
Tony Robbins

Power, Experience, Human

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Sometimes, Creating

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Creating, Somewhat

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Means, Peaceful

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Experience, Human, Others

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius

Men, Knowing, Concerned

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
Russell Brand

Happy, Yourself, Selfish

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time, Mind, Two

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

Men, Fact, Superior

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.
Michael Jordan

Basketball, Young, Learn

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman

Spiritual, Feelings, Become

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace, Science, Live

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Maturity, Reap, Complain

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Fact, Conscious

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Here, American, Pay

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