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Quotes About Abilities

How you feel about your abilities—your academic "self-concept"—in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It's a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Striving for success with access of abilities and strength leads to clarity, with clarity confidence naturally comes up.
~ Abhinav Rajput
You already have great gifts, talents and abilities, but you must find the environment where your potential can be developed and maximised
~ Mensah Oteh
Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~ Andre Malraux
We can be proud of our abilities, but we must be honest about our shortcomings—our ignorance as well as our mistakes.
~ Andrew Hunt
The art of communicating instruction, of whatever kind, is much to be valued; and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion that the greatest abilities are not only not required for this office, but render a man less fit for it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Fluxers were one of the five Fs. They could turn into animals. Flyers flew. Flares had fire magic. Fuzzies had animal magic. Flickers had invisibility magic of one sort or another.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Unsere Wünsche sind die Vorboten der Fähigkeiten, die in uns liegen.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friendship unveils potentials and abilities.
~ John Arthur
The only value comes if you have something positive to do, and it's important to match both your own interests and abilities to what you decide to work on. I
~ John Brockman
Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.
~ John Bunyan
Whether a distinction is invidious—rooted in harmful attitudes or ideas about a group and so likely to spread contempt—depends not on whether it's conduct- or status-based but on the reasoning behind it. Invidious distinctions are rooted in unfair, socially debilitating attitudes or ideas about people's worth, proper social status, abilities, or actions. By
~ John Corvino
A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.
~ Alyssa Milano
All people have their own special skills. Instead of just identifying deficiencies, schools should try to identify and promote those special skills as early on as possible. For
~ Edward M. Hallowell
primary mental abilities and perceptual and motor skills are the most influenced by heredity, while personality traits are the least influenced. If
~ Edward O. Wilson
Everyone has some best abilities; don't underestimate others. They may cause you, feel sorry and pity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The decline problem is a double whammy, then: we need ever-greater success to avoid dissatisfaction, yet our abilities to stay even are declining. No, it's actually a triple whammy, because as we try to stay even, we wind up in patterns of addictive behavior such as workaholism, which puts strivers into unhealthy relationship patterns at the cost of deep connection to spouses, children, and friends.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without considering that her abilities or qualifications would ever be questioned.
~ Rebecca Traister
Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.
~ Sue Hubbell
I just work hard with my God-given talent and abilities.
~ Christian Coleman
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
~ John Paul Jones
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
~ Robert H. Schuller
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
~ Kate Moss