Quotes About Ability

Men, and governments, must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

Literature is the human mind at the very height of its ability to express and interpret the world around us. Literature, at its best, does not simplify, but it enlarges our minds and sensibilities to the point where we can better handle complexity--even if, as is often the case, we don't entirely agree with what we are reading.

Henry Adams observes that John Hay has the ability to take the world as a whole rather than pulling it to pieces in criticism. He also observes that, in the routine of a stressful job, this perspective is challenged

Talent alone does not make someone an expert.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

You are responsible for the ability which God has given you.—

Sophie swallowed, tears rising to her eyes again. It was an odd legacy to hand from mother to daughter: the ability to stand proud among the ruins of one's marriage.

Self-confidence/assurance is a feeling of trust or confidence in one's abilities, qualities, skills, intellect, brain, strenght, character and stuffs like that. Now listen up, you should be self-confident/assured. But, never be overconfident/assured i.e. never be excessively confident or assured. For, your ability/quality/skill/intellect/brain/strenght or a stuff like that can fail or disappoint you even when you least expect it or rather when you need it most.

Self-confidence/assurance is simply all about being on a firm ground i.e. self-confidence/assurance is all about being 100% assured/confident of your self/potential/skill/ability/belief. Now that infers, whoever that is not assured/confident of his/her potential/skill/ability/belief is never self-confident/assured. So, dare to be self-assured/confident if you've not been self-confident/assured.

Self-discipline is just an ability to say NO/YES when you ought to say it and an attitude of setting boundary on what you dislike. Are you self-disciplined or not?

To do one's best is nothing else but maximum utilization of the ability that one has. In other words, anyone who fails to utilize his or her ability (physically, intellectually or otherwise) maximally has not really done his or her best (to my mind). ~Emeasoba George

What it takes to prove yourself/oneself i.e. to showcase your/one's ability/potential/courage is only self confidence/assurance/esteem.

You've got to believe in your own ability, value and potential. For, once you believe in yourself undoubtedly. Then, you can and will achieve the incredible things. Even the so called impossibilities. Yes! self-belief (confidence in oneself and one's ability) accelerates success, (mark you).~Emeasoba George

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and LadiesAnd Lads and Girls—Was laughter and ability and Sighing,And Frocks and Curls.

Our Government cannot buy for minor clerks the best ability of the nation in the cheap currency of pure honour, and no Government is rich enough to buy very much of it in money.

Instinct is untaught ability.

The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.

In government we have leaders who are perceived by and large as unable to do what they are supposed to do, to lead. In business we have leaders who are perceived by and large as able to do what they are supposed to do, to lead, but who nevertheless do so in ways that disappoint and dishearten.

Esther Clovis might not be much of a tea-maker but she had considerable organizing ability and knew how to act in a crisis, as at this moment, confronted with the anthropologists who would not go.

Their credo was the exact opposite of the idea prevailing in the more newly minted United States, that there was a peculiar extra virtue in being lowly born, that only the self-made carried the badge of ability and that men of easy circumstances were more likely than not to be stupid or wicked, if not both.

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

Do not think like a human. You have the ability within you to create anything you wish. Truth is, you are all highly powerful entities walking this planet, disguised as simple biological beings & the disguise fools everyone -- even yourself.