Definition of Ability

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Ability

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.

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Ability Quotations

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

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ability Translations

ability in Danish is egnethed
ability in Dutch is bekwaamheid, kundigheid
ability in Latin is potestas, facultas
ability in Norwegian is dyktighet
ability in Portuguese is abilidade
ability in Spanish is primor, habilitacion, habilidad

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