Quotes About Ability

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

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.

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.