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Quotes About Ability

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.
~ Terrell Owens
I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
~ Bill Parcells
Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.
~ Claire Shipman
A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
~ Brian Eno
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
~ William O. Douglas
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
~ Vanna Bonta
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.
~ Unknown
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
~ Thomas Jane
There is no divinely mandated link between morality and competence.
~ Philip Tetlock
El problema de Dios no es que no sea capaz de hacer ciertas cosas. Su problema es que él ama. El amor le complica la vida a Dios, como se la complica a cualquiera"1.
~ Philip Yancey
But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
~ Philip Yancey
But whether or not God CHOOSES to do something is a question of His sovereignty, not His ability.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Let your thoughts run free, as if your mind is taking a leisurely Sunday afternoon walk through a garden in spring bloom. I stand in the hallway, mute. Alone. I realize: I must develop the ability to go the distance rather than just envy it. Don't speak unless you can improve on silence The truth is never as interesting as what people whisper about them It's because the dream is so perfect that I can walk away from it That blackness brought me out of the nightmare and into this morning's light
~ Rachel Cohn
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
~ Rachel Corrie
Bilim adamlar? yüzy?llar boyunca yaln?zca insanlar?n güldüÄŸünü iddia etmiÅŸtir ve hayvanlar da bu yan?lg?ya kat?la kat?la gülmüÅŸtür. Hayvanlar yaln?zca iki ÅŸeyi yapamaz: Kendilerine yalan söylemek ve bir banka kurmak; bunlar?n d???nda her ÅŸeyi yapmaya yetenekleri vard?r.
~ Rafik Schami
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
~ Dean Koontz
with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.
~ Dean Koontz
surely every human being on the planet had the same potential to be telepathic.
~ Dean Koontz
significant contributing factor to her ability to buy this remote and little-valued island
~ Dean Koontz
he said with such confidence that her heart surged with hope. "But a person's ability to love is only equal to his or her openness in receiving it.
~ Debbie Macomber
Parkinson's is a wicked illness, slowly diluting his ability to be in the world. His voice is faint, his gait unsteady, but he is, as always, charming, smart, and, most of all, interested in other people.
~ Delia Ephron