Ability Quotes and Sayings
Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
M. Wren
Ability hãs nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe
There is only one proof of ability, action.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas Edison
They are able because they think they are able.
Vergil
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C Ceram
Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Charlotte Whitton
The only power an actor has is the ability to say: “No”.
Lou Diamond Phillips
Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one’s sporting ability.
Russell Mark
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
Prince Charles
Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Sophie Tucker
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
Zoroaster
A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.
Donald Kircher
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and to conquer them.
Wendell Phillips
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda Meir
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasgow
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Bruce Jenner
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D Rockefeller
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
John Hancock
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fibre to sustain the world.
Phil Bredesen
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
Seneca
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried awãy.
Jay Gould