Ability Quotes - Page 9

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

  Mark Haddon

  Light, Difficult Situations, People

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• Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Memories, Inspiration

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

  Golda Meir

  Fall, Hair, Mark

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Strength, Inspiring

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Sacred, Spirituality

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.163, Dell

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• If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

  Bill Gates

  Work, People, Giving

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

  Dominic Savio

  God, Religious, Christian Inspirational

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• The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

  George Lucas

  Power, Cells, Giving

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• I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Acceptance, Control Someone, Able

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2016

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• In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

  Kenneth Grant

  Imagination, Magic, Important

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• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Way, Rebellious

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• Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

  Zoroaster

  Men, Light, Divine

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• Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Husband, Women

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.143, Penguin

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• I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Crush, Powerful, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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• As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Children, Growing Up, Long

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.361, Macmillan

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• Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nice, Lobster, Bodyguard

  "Neverwhere". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Commitment, Ideas, Purpose

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.188, Penguin

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• Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memorable, Epic, Doubt

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, People, Needs

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