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Quotes About Ability

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
~ Aldous Huxley
Dembele likes to take players on. He's a dribbler and a power player who likes to break into space; he has the ability to do this. He has a lot of virtues.
~ Ernesto Valverde
I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
~ Black Elk
You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
~ Veronica Lake
The skies were overcast. As the carriage rumbled along, Rafe watched the shadows weave in and out, dance over and around her as she gazed out the window. And blast it all if he didn't envy their ability to touch her so lightly.
~ Lorraine Heath
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
~ Unknown
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
~ Lou Holtz
Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.
~ Louise L. Hay
PROBLEM: Shoulders See: Joints, Round Shoulders PROBABLE CAUSE: Represent our ability to carry out experiences in life joyously. We make life a burden by our attitude. NEW THOUGHT PATTERN: I choose to allow all my experiences to be joyous and loving.
~ Louise L. Hay
We all have, she knew, a place where we're not only most comfortable, but most competent
~ Louise Penny
I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discouraging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.
~ Unknown
Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.
~ Ludwig von Mises
In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities that they only dreamed of.
~ Jodi Picoult
Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of.
~ Jodi Picoult
Their eye-hand coordination was impressive (maybe the Eugenics Council had done something right).
~ Joe Haldeman
In regard to empowerment, grace gives us the ability to go beyond our natural ability. We didn't have the ability to deliver ourselves from hell; grace did. We shouldn't live in freedom, but grace enables us. We couldn't change our nature; grace did. We don't have the ability to live holy, but grace enables us. No wonder we call it amazing!
~ John Bevere
Grace is God's free empowerment that gives us the ability to go beyond our natural ability. W
~ John Bevere
But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club? It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.
~ John Bunyan
It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.
~ John Bunyan
You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.
~ John C. Maxwell
2. God commanded both male and female to have dominion (v. 27). Both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific.
~ John C. Maxwell
People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.
~ John C. Maxwell