Ability Quotes - Page 7

• God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Availability, Doe, Asking

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• Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

  Nitin Nohria

  Tests, Way, Maintaining

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• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

  Nolan Ryan

  Ability To Change, Enjoy, Adaptability

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Needs, Human Condition, Shows

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

  John Abbott

  Men, Art And Culture, May

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• I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

  Chuck Close

  Thinking, Doing Me, Disabled

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  Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

  Jim Valvano

  Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Degrees, Solemnity, Found

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

  Yann Martel

  Inspirational, Moving, Saving

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

  Steig Larsson

  Survival, Causes, Lost

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• Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

  Thomas W. Moore

  Learning, Science, Data

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• The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

  Jay Inslee

  Oil, Giving, Addiction

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• If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Regret, Men

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• Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

  Jean Rostand

  Giving, Feelings, Said

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• 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 Younger

  Men, Mind, Wells

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• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Skills, Genius, Splendid

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• If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Skills, Needs, Attempting

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• Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Celebrate

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• As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393

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• We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

  Jacques Barzun

  Complaining, Would Be, Natural Elements

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• I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

  Fred L. Turner

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• 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

  Happiness, Believe, Destiny

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• Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Smart, Opportunity, Addiction

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• It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.

  Patrick Ewing

  Done, Persons

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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