Quotation Explorer - 'Ability'

Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your self-esteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. - Roy T. Bennett

The gate to success lies in your ability to unlock it. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. - Lawrence G. Lovasik

The happiest moment i've ever felt was that moment when i discovered my ability to create. - Dr. Hazem Ali

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. - Brian Tracy

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. the only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford

For success, positive attitude and gratitude is more important that ability. - Debasish Mridha

I only run from darkness when I'm not confident in my ability to shine. - D.R. Silva

If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn’t from the right source. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. - Will Durant

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words. - L.L. Caulton

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good. - DaShanne Stokes

Success lies not in our strength but our ability to do the right thing. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Calm is not a place where there is no noise or activity. It is the ability to be in the midst of these, yet experiencing peace within. - Shilpa Menon

Power is the ability not to have to please - Elizabeth Janeway

Now to life...I grant you the ability to give, to take, to expedite, to wander, to love, to hate, to charge, to expend...All of life is beautiful for what it makes of us. With only this single shot, let us leap into the unknown with our eyes open and our hearts ready. - Rachel La Rae Wilhelm

Peace is the byproduct of understanding in conjunction with the ability to agree or disagree in harmony - Lamont Renzo Bracy

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace. - Monica Fairview

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. - Bernard M. Baruch

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love. - Erin Fall Haskell

Leadership is about relationships - whether it’s a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life. - Steve Knox

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

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. - Chris Matakas

All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience. - Debasish Mridha

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. - Johann Sebastian Bach

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

The happiest moment i felt; is that moment when i realized my ability to create. - Dr. Hazem Ali

The more actively engaged you are in the present moment, the more aware you will become of yourself; your actions and reactions. As you become more aware, you will increase your ability to change what it is you do and how. - Akiroq Brost

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. - Chuck Palahniuk

Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals. - Nathaniel Branden

Anticipating death and calling it gain, Christians are evangelists of the grotesque. The very hope of the Gospel rests directly upon our ability to imagine a world in which suffering serves as the soil from which resurrection springs. - Ben Palpant

We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future! - Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two. - Carl Henegan

We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love. - Kamand Kojouri

She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain. - Nikki Rowe

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. - Simone Weil

To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being. - Kenan Malik

I believe having a healthy emotional will help in your ability to communicate and to connect to others. We have to learn how to express our feelings especially the negative ones. - Michael Barbarulo

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. - Niccolo Machiavelli

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. - Roman Payne

Live within your ability but think beyond your capability. - Debasish Mridha

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive - Gary Hopkins

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always. - Oprah Winfrey

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars. - Orrin Woodward

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy. - Auliq Ice

Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed. - Unarine Ramaru

God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability. - Sunday Adelaja

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. - Josh Billings

Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability. - Debasish Mridha

No one has the ability to define who you are unless you give permission. - Leta B.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing. - J.K. Rowling

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there. - C. JoyBell C.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave. - Demi Lovato

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason. - Thiruman Archunan

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. - Stephen R. Covey

A person who could withstand such dreadful insults from his or her enemies can have the ability to reach his or her potentials by becoming socially, educationally and economically successful. - Saaif Alam

We don't want to hear it, but one of the biggest "secrets" to success is the ability to take action. - Daniel Vlcek

The less their ability, the more their conceit. - Ahad HaAm

If you have to ask, ask for the ability to help others. - Debasish Mridha

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry. - Milton Glaser

Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn. - Debasish Mridha

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important. - Steve Jobs

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. - Andrew Carnegie

They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice. - Criss Jami

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing. - Hunter S. Thompson

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. - Ivan Illich

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God. - Shannon L. Alder

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances. - Louise L. Hay

By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others. - Danielle Joworski

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. - Randy K. Milholland

Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire. - Justin Young

The ability to feel and express genuine gratitude for the help given when it is needed most, for the gift or boon that is given at just the right time and under the right circumstances, is a way of surrendering one’s self to benevolent external forces. - Stephen Richards

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. - Vaclav Havel

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems. - Amit Kalantri

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. - Norah Vincent

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men. - Katha Pollitt

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. - M. F. K. Fisher

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view. - Susan J. McIntire

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's the will that gives us the ability to focus - Bob Proctor

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus - Corrie ten Boom

Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction! - Deyth Banger

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers. - Amit Kalantri

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence. - Shannon L. Alder

Our ability to discover new experiences exists outside of who we are in the Box. - Heidi Reagan

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history. - Otto von Bismarck

The mind has the ability to trick the body into believing it is happy and that all is well - the heart however, feels it. And as the saying goes, 'The heart wants what the heart wants'. Anything else just wouldn't do... - Charles R. Mackriel

To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance. - Tarryn Tomlinson

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. - Charles Luckman

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. - Charles M. Schulz

You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun. - J.R. Rim

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it. - Christopher Earle

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species. - Kim Askew

Brand integrity is the ability to present one’s brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand’s promise). - Bernard Kelvin Clive

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. - Joseph Conrad

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them. - Orson Scott Card

When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true. - Cheryl Hughes

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. - Thomas A. Edison

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his startingcapital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly. - Sunday Adelaja

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity. - Shawn Lukas

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting. - Albert Ellis

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

Your ability is your power. Others’ opinions can make it sour. - Debasish Mridha

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share. - Amit Kalantri

Integrity is the ability of being honest and having strong moral principles and values, which reflect in our character.Decide to work in integrity and uprightness of hearts that is the price to be paid for you to realise your vision. - Prince Akwarandu

I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green… - Munia Khan

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

There is more ability to meditate in a rabbit than in one thousand Buddhists. - Daniel Marques

The power of turning your life around lays in your ability to unleash your personal powers to accomplish it. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame. - Courtney Lynch

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen. - Gary Hopkins

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained. - Donna Lynn Hope

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering. - Atul Gawande

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. - Gao Xingjian

We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstien

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you. - Bob Proctor

An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

God is love, at times we forget that we're human perhaps with common frailties and flaws. Love is the ability to accept this without judgement. - Monica Chrisandtras Hines

The ability to live in a stable, safe environment that gives us the opportunity to create, grow and nurture our talents is sadly denied to many in the world today. I am proud to be able to say – as a leader – I can offer this to my people. - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. - Malcolm X

We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal. - Venugopal Gupta

You have the ability to drive your brain and the capability to nab the steering wheel back any time you feel yourself veering off the road you intended to take. - Toni Sorenson

God is not interested in your ability. He isinterested in your availability. When you availyour ability to God, you become a faithful leader. - Israelmore Ayivor

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

I've never met a man who combined spiritual depth, musical ability, and international fame with such grace, charm, and humility as Johnny.

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things. - Dorothy Sayers

True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you. - John Bruna

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. - Brian Tracy

Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings

The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future. - Shirley Trusty Corey

Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The ability to do perform Reiki comes from an internal freedom. The power to be free from stress, tension, and anger. - Nikita Dudani

Patience creates a platform for deeply intimate communication. This platform tests our ability to listen, our willingness to be kind, and our strength against loss. This is the platform in which the most authentic types beauty can be exchanged. - Ilse Hildebrandt

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens. - Elizabeth George

a good philosopher always have great reading ability. - Muhammad Hassam

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word. - James MacDonald

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. - Orison Swett Marden

The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength. - Matthew Donnelly

The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability. - Yusuf A. Leinge

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need. - Bryant McGill

Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human. - Leah C. Fowler

The story is always better than your ability to write it. - Robin McKinley

You're not given a big dream, without the ability to achieve it - Jana Kingsford

True success is there when a person has the ability to lose himself or herself in the search of knowledge and wisdom by using love, joy, and gratitude. On the other hand, societal success comes from the progressive realizations of worthy goals. - Debasish Mridha

Besides your mouth, your mind is a powerful tool given to you by God. Use your mind; control your mind, don't let it control you! Your imaginative power is your creative ability. - Paul Silway

Wisdom is the ability to take two opposite facts and make sense from both of the them - Luthando Daniels

A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination. - Daniel Akst

If you don't keep challenging your mind and your self, you're going to loose the ability to grow as a human being both physically and spiritually. - Lateef Abader

Courage is the ability to take bold action in spite of fear. - Debasish Mridha

The essence of leadership is not to portray yourself as some sort of know-it-all, but your ability to develop the people you are working with so they themselves can take the initiative and do the organizational drive. - Pat Chambers

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. - Joyce Brothers

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. - Russell Brand

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner. - Amit Kalantri

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company. - Seneca

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly. - Robert K. Massie

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes

The power of Manifestation is the ability to make seen the unseen, to real~ise the unreal - Misha Hoo

A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first. - Dee Henderson

Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability. - Peter H. Davids

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do not confuse the two. - Unarine Ramaru

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability. - Amit Kalantri

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves. - Mark Sanborn

Ability to think is the first step towards self-dependent. - Dim Godswill

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. - P. G. Wodehouse

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy. - Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens – constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities – and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. - Roy T. Bennett

Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. - Andrew Solomon

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. - Linus Torvalds

Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light. - Debasish Mridha

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Malcolm Forbes

lack of sound mind and judgment – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God - Sunday Adelaja

Listening; our propensity to complicate this effortless act is only matched by our ability to relentlessly obscure the obvious. - Glenn A. Maltais

Burnout, beat-up and broken down we may limp away from a failed relationship, job or environment, but we will be better equipped to follow our hearts...thoughtfully. Our ability to see the potential in ourselves and others will determine our success. - Steve Knox

Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself or condemn yourself. If your thoughts are depressingly running across your mind. You need to make adjustments and change your way of thinking. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn’t that apply to all of us? - Pulkit Patel

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. - Bruno Bettelheim

Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented. - conversations with a pigeon

The only freedom of choice you have is the ability to define your own path and destiny. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Just believe; believe in yourself; believe in your ability. Things will be possible; things will be simple; things will be a reality. - Debasish Mridha

Life is not a problem but an endless possibility.Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability. - Debasish Mridha

...our ability to achieve our dreams and fulfill our destiny is directly influenced by our thinking. How we think determines our responses, our ability to relate to others, our level of commitment, our priorities, and the dreams we will pursue. - Christine Caine

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it. - Amit Kalantri

You are my friend because I saw my ability to increase my knowledge around you. - Unarine Ramaru

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have. - Andy Andrews

A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a work of art, has no need to try to be sincere; all he can do is practice his craft to the best of his ability. But once he starts making useless things, how can he not be sincere? - René Daumal

Wisdom of a person is his ability to see beyond the visible ground and never let an unsound, cunning people to hang around. - Anuj Somany

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes. - David Brooks

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship. - David D. Burns

When you have the ability to dream, you have the capability to do. - Debasish Mridha

Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence. - Emily Thorne

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening. - Budd Schulberg

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. - Jane Wagner

Cast yourself upon the waters. Trust in your ability to swim. - Marty Rubin

You can reawaken your childhood ability to use a smartphone before you could read. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010) - Seymour Simon

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. - Robert Half

2274Humanity has ability to find good in as many things as possible and respond them with kindness - Kishore Bansal

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along. - Sydney J. Harris

Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face. - Ashwin Sanghi

The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations. - William Thompson

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde

The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man. - Thucydides

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. - Brian Tracy

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility - Rasheed Ogunlaru

You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy. - Roopleen

The thinking ability or creative intelligence for a man is same as sexuality for a woman, and believe me, the latter is far more dangerous than all the nukes in this world." - - Ramana Pemmaraju

Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic. - Agnostic Zetetic

Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an "us" and "them" view of the world. (p. 135) - John L. Esposito

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud. - Shannon L. Alder

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response. - David Yeung

We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament. - Paranjay Malkan

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. - Dr. David M. Burns

Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. - Robert Frost

What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different - Peyton J Glenn

God would never place a dream in your heart that He didn't have the ability to fulfill. - Chris Burkmenn

We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough. - sera break

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability. - Tara Estacaan

I pray for the ability to love you without expecting any return. - Debasish Mridha

The very essence of your true self is the ability to recognize what you think is not always what you may feel.The heart is the slave~bns - Bluenscottish

Attitude, not ability, determines destiny - Anonymous

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle. - Daisaku Ikeda

Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action. - Orrin Woodward

Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades. - Steven Magee

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday. - Iyanla Vanzant

I think that people which can choose should use their ability, the people which can't should be made soldiers... so far it sounds faiiir. - Deyth Banger

Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy. - Donna Lynn Hope

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind. - Orrin Woodward

Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....

Kindness is the ability to love someone in such a way that she will remember your kindness for the rest of her life. - Debasish Mridha

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. - Stephen King

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. - Gerald R. Ford

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance. - Even Engesland

I have met many Masters and most have an abundance of flaws and social failings. However, the one thing that separates them from the rest of us is their fearless ability to walk their own path regardless of the opinions of others. - Gary Hopkins

Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte

It’s what you believe about your ability that shapes your potential success. - Stan Beecham

The ability to control the devil in you, defines the strength of your conscience! - Gunbir Singh

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you. - Debasish Mridha

To take away a woman's ability to walk is one thing; it's quite another to take away her ability to speak. -(Lady Meesha) I Am Lady Sasha -The Journey From Slave to Slave- - Julienne Russell

Any purpose will be entirely purposeless unless it completely exceeds my ability to achieve it for only then is there room for God, and without God purpose of even the most magnificent sort remains utterly and abjectly purposeless. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy - William Gibson

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. - Heywood Broun

The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own. - Ben Morton

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. - Salma Hayek

We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets. - Mark Epstein

The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life in a way that expands our understanding of some previously unseen or unarticulated aspect of existence. - Nicole Krauss

For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. - Nancy Atwell

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art. - Neil Gaiman

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. - George Goethals

It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. - Charles de Montesquieu

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Our ability to have patience, and our attitude toward others, define who we are at any given time. - Ellen J. Barrier

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. - Michael Jordan

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality. - Eric Sloane

We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment. - Dana Arcuri

It' like he has the ability to take on some of my pain. I feel so much better around him. Stronger. And he is willing to take my pain. He wants to bear it with me. I can see it shining in his eyes. I'm more than a duty to him. I'm more than his literal dream girl. I'm so much more. - Cynthia Hand

The ability to love is the divine power of human. - Debasish Mridha

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw

Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly. - Debasish Mridha

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. - Auliq Ice

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. - Alice Miller

The ability to see the future does not require sight just Vision and Passion to embrace Change for a better American future.-12-05-2013 - Michael E. McKinzy Sr.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. - J. K. Rowling

Psychic power is the ability to download information directly from the Universe. - Lada Ray

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out. - Eve Marie Mont

The prime purpose of education is to enhance the ability to think better. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability. - Maxwell Maltz

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic. - Jay Samit

Touch of Ability with Action can never be lost in the journey of life. - Kishore Bansal

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board. - Emma Cline

Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain. - Kemi Sogunle

Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want. - Pamela Madsen

Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones. - Daniel M. Gilbert

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. - George Lucas

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from. - Joss Whedon

Hopes are potential power. It has the innate ability to show the way of life. - Debasish Mridha

We must all cultivate our own creativity because we each have a God-given imagination that has the ability to bless generations and eternity. - Alisa Hope Wagner

The more you give, the more you will have the ability to give. - Debasish Mridha

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being. - Jeff Bezos

Books open and broaden our minds allowing us to challenge ourselves to become more than we are, by setting positive goals for ourselves, and overcoming doubts about our ability to receive the education we want to achieve. - Ellen J. Barrier

Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure. - Bryant McGill

The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it. - Ben Midland

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure] - Adrian Lamo

As is our enthusiasm, so is our ability. - Debasish Mridha

A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

If the people can’t comprehend or don’t want to apprehend the approach of a person being honest in own attitude towards resolving any issues, then they will squarely put the blame or burden on him by saying that he lacks ability to make them understand his views. - Anuj Somany

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly. - Dr. Myles Munroe

being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT. - Orrin Woodward

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world. - Serj Tankian

History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability. - Debasish Mridha

It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us. Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack

Consider what really makes up your self-worth—like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity - Susan Bernstein

Life itself has an incomparable ability to test your wits that you won’t require anything extra or don’t have to go anywhere outside your space to get them tested. – Aniruddha. - Aniruddha Sastikar

Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow. - Debasish Mridha

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. - Oscar Wilde

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. - Immanuel Kant

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future. - David Richo

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power,has that ability to comfort. - Norman Kolpas

We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent. - Debasish Mridha

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something - Bob Proctor

Alexier found that a dose of humility did wonders to one’s ability to grasp new ideas and, after all, it had been this very ability that made him the researcher he was today. - I. H. Richardson

Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself. - Molly Anne Marie

To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray. - Ilyas Kassam

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. - Christina Westover

The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality. - Esther Perel

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different. - Marianne Williamson

...civility doesn't require consensus or the suspension of criticism. It is simply the ability to disagree productively with others while respecting their sincerity and decency. - Ravi Iyer and Jonathan Haidt

If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal - Justin Southwick

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage. - Charles Luckman

The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences. - Adam Fenner

Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference. - Ron Brackin

Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go with it."(On Beauty: , Vogue, January 8, 2016) - Susan Sarandon

The ability to recognise and respect individualdifferences is the beginning of successfulrelationship - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens. - Jason Whitlock

Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity. - Chris Vonada

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it. - Robbie Gass

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. - Andrew Carnegie

Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed... - Shan O' Connor

Lucid Dreaming is the ability of a brain to download the information of a possible futuristic state of an event from a Parallel Universe. - Vishwanath S J

Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the example and help to foster this love of reading in our little ones. - Carmela Dutra

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job - Anders Ericsson

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. - Charles Bukowski

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others. - C. Terry Warner

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books. - David Bowie

Even everything will come to failure and seems it always like that, i’ll just start again. The biggest ability i have, is ability to keep repeat on fail. - Yong Junhyung

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every time when it rains it stops raining... After darkness there is always a light... Every time you sleep you get up fresh.. Never Give Up at your tough time. You are successful if you have ability to handle your nervousness and go on with confidence.. - Ahad Aadi

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. - Chekhov Anton

With honest and straightforward business principles, close and careful attention to details, and the ability to take advantage of favourable opportunities and circumstances, there is a scope for success. - Jamsetji Tata

God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues. - Sunday Adelaja

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. - Barbara Johnson

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. - Rebecca West

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism - Yahya Mohamed

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity. - Nelson Mandela

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story. - Steve Maraboli

Although life is filled with twists and turns, only you have the ability to make positive changes to your life. You can do it. One day at a time! ~ Taken from "Words of Wisdom for Warriors" by EM.EM.Genesis - E.M. E.M. Genesis

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things. - Lev S. Vygotsky

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. - Zig Ziglar

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it. - Harry S Truman

Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. - Charles Bukowski

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability. - Ron White

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. - Robert J. Shiller

Don't be preoccupied with something that drags your mind downhill. Be someone who could be destined to shine and can have the ability reach ultimate goals for the future." - Saaif Alam

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them - Morena Baloyi

Jesus does not demand of us higher standards, he offers us himself. Jesus does not require of us super-human ability or commitments. He gives us his ability and grace. - Ronnie McBrayer

People who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous. - William Gibson

There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times. - Subroto Bagchi

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human. - Terry Pratchett

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is the ability to transform unhappiness into happiness. - Marty Rubin

I had no choice but to accept these voices and images as my gift. My ability. Their energy engrossed my music. I played passionately for them. To set them free. They were part of my life now. I didn't chose them, they chose me."...Elizabeth (DESCENDANT– chapter 2) - L.J. Amodeo

Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there - Zig Ziglar

Leadership is the ability to make things happen. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I choose because I can.. I have options in life and the ability to choose, but that choice determines my future, the next. However I decide...it's my choice. - Chantel Smith

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. - Marcus Aurelius

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel - Jeremy Aldana

In life, some of the things we are afraid of are the same things that are use to test our ability to stand trials - Buhari S.I

Don’t pray for help; pray for the ability to help others. - Debasish Mridha

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. - Tom Lehrer

Consider the postage stamp: its usefullness consits in the ability to stick to one thing 'til it gets there. - Josh Billings

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. - Thurgood Marshall

The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes. - Elyse Wilk

Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands - Bob Hope

You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer. - Steve Goodier

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I want to kiss you so thoroughly that you lose your ability to stand. - John Mark Green

The ability to win increases when you do not fear to struggle. - Debasish Mridha

I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like, justice, judgement, truth and equity. - Sunday Adelaja

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. - Junot Díaz

Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11 - A.H. Scott

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant. - Chris Messner

Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do. - Joyce Meyer

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. - Stendhal

In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now! - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher - J.E.B. Spredemann

Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want. - Bob Barr

Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich. - Amit Kalantri

The diversity of our connections outside our particular tribe is directly proportionate to our ability to listen, learn and love. - Steve Knox

You are always free when you have the ability to think. - Debasish Mridha

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside. - Anchee Min

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. - Karl Kraus

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success. - Martin Van Buren

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. - Thomas H. Huxley

Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts. - Asa Don Brown

Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it. - Debasish Mridha

If you lose the power to love, you lose the ability to live. - Debasish Mridha

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us. - Leslie G Nelson

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation. - José Ortega y Gasset

Be happy. Be happy for no reason at all. Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice. - Richelle E. Goodrich

A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way.... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on... unless of course you prefer sand. - K.E. Garvey

The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements. - Bryant McGill

It's through difficulty that we must discover our true ability. - Chris Burkmenn

You are the captain of your emotions. No one and nothing can control those feelings except you. You have the sole ability to either let these make or break you, inspire or destroy you."- Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo

Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level. - Roopleen

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people. - Guy Kawasaki

Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain’s ability to act out of rage and fear. - Abhijit Naskar

An invisible almighty has given the wings to the birds to fly not to try to be like other animals as each creature has own ability & capability, so it’s wise to be not fooled by those who advocate often with nice words to follow others . - Anuj Somany

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct. - Kevin Thoman

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - Baltasar Gracian

My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame. - Edward Ugel

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. - John N. Gray

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

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 S. Churchill

Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the `other people` dimension, the greater our personal `greatness`. - Chairman Mao

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. - Ann Landers

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Churchill

In the end, you will forget to love, and you will not have the ability to offend. When you have the ability to love, love and forget to offend. - Debasish Mridha

Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter? - John Bruna

Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. - Bharath Mamidoju

The more you enhance your ability to meditate, the better you will be able to make better decisions and create better harmony either within yourself, at home or at work. - Vishwas Chavan

Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance. - Rajesh Nanoo

Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour. - Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest. - Fernando Pessoa

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change - Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

Self Mastery is the ability to maneuver through life without the mind or emotional attachment. It is being a mindfully present observer instead of the mind identified perceiver. - Renee Cefalu

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively - Bob Marley

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character. - Israelmore Ayivor

The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. - Wayne Cordeiro

The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and be creative, trapped in neither the past nor the future. - A. G. Roemmers

It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings

WISDOM - The ability to accept our limitations and learn from the viewpoints of others - Kamil Ali

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything. - Yanni

My vision is to help each man, woman and child connect with their inherent psychic ability. I believe that each person has the potential to tap into their abilities and access them to empower their life and reach their full potential. - Sandy Anastasi

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

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

In any situation, the ability to see true beauty gives you true freedom. - Debasish Mridha

One of the best things about humans is their ability to love. - Auliq Ice

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change. - Madeleine K. Albright

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious. - Donna Lynn Hope

Intuitions are messenger of opportunities. Hit them with your ability. - Kishore Bansal

You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you. - Lionel Suggs

As a country we learn a lot about ability, but very little about human empathy. - Premchand Shetty

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool. - Jane Wagner

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. - Karl Marx

With certainty, one thing would be unattainable for a thousand years, if I live; is the ability to stop ceaselessly falling deeper, and deeper, and deeper, in loving with you, over, and over, and over again... - Solomon Debisette

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better - Larry Niven

Anger suffocates your mind, body and soul. The ability to love amidst anger is a true blessing and it transcends our existence! - Monica Chrisandtras Hines

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream. - Bert McCoy

All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus - Bob Proctor

Our ability to carry on doing our work … depends crucially on the conversations we have with each other. - Philip Streatfield

He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited. - Laura Spinella

Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed. - Richard Elmore

Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation. - Balroop Singh

To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of oppostion. - -Shandel Slaten

Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle. - Emily Thorne

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness. - LeeAnn Taylor

I am unable to tolerate’; to say this is the lack of ability to tolerate and ‘I am able to tolerate’ is itself the ability to tolerate. - Dada Bhagwan

My ability is greater than my disability. - Nikki Rowe

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. "My accountability, bear in mind," Said the Grand Vizier: "Yes, yes," Said the Shah: "I do -- 'tis the only kind Of ability you possess." Joram Tate - Ambrose Bierce

Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.

...although the universe itself isn't a conscious entity, it possesses the raw materials that, when properly set into motion, create consciousness. It has the ability to create intelligent life, which is capable of understanding the universe... It can know itself indirectly - Arthur Byron Cover

Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good. - Duncan William Gibbons

We have the ability to write the blueprint for our own goals, and decide how we want to pursue them. If we allow others to do it for us, we won’t achieve our full potential to be the best we can be. - Ellen J. Barrier

Wisdom is the ability to project into the future and see the consequences of every choice. - R.A.Delmonico

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