Able Quotes

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm

Faith, Person, Others

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Successful, Study

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge

Religion, Human, Doubt

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.
Mitt Romney

Bad, Job, America

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken

Live, May, Hell

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing, Difficult, Precious

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen Hawking

Time, Why, Everyone

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Morihei Ueshiba

Heart, Through, Enough

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
Bill Gates

Put, Sense, Less

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Strong, Mind, Between

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
Paula Deen

Money, Important, Fashion

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
Elizabeth Edwards

Strength, Patience, Human

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
Angelina Jolie

Beauty, Family, Children

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Love, God

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life, Self, Give

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
William James

Said, Actually, Breathe

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
Lauren Hutton

Life, Through, Grow

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
Laurel Clark

Experience, Different, Country

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx

Money, Live, Write

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson

Power, Control, Interest

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Help, Lives

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

Talk, Loved, Less

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

Caring, Often, Succeed

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Wisdom, Important

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Violence, Youth, Failing

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power, Themselves, Matters

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna

Best, Reality, Same

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.
Billy Graham

Walk, Move, Privilege

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