Ability Quotes

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

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

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

I have an ability that I've already honed in on to get better.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

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

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.