A Quotes
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“Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.”
“Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.”
“Ability and necessity dwell near each other.”
“Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.”
“Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.”
“ability atrophies through lack of exercise.”
“Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there”
“Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.”
“Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.”
“Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.”
Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom
“Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.”
“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.”
“Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light”
“Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.”
“Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.”
“Ability is a poor man's wealth.”
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
“Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.”
“Ability is active power, or power to perform.”
Source: A Manual of Useful Studies: For the Instruction of Young Persons of Both Sexes, in Families and Schools
“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”
“Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Ability is God-given, prowess is earned.”
“Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.”
“Ability is not always gauged by examination.”
Source: Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969
“Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.”
“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
“Ability is noting without opportunity.”
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
“Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.”
“ability is of no value without discipline. Winning has no style or substance without humility.”
Source: Dublin in the Rain
“Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.”
“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.”
“Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.”
“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
“Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.”
“Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.”
“Ability means all of us finding our strengths and putting them to full use.”
“Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still good that people can get your music, and hopefully in the course of that, people will want to see you live, around the world shows. It might get you to where you get to travel all over the planet. 'Cause now people are hungry: "Oh, I wanna see this guy, I wanna hear this music live, I wanna see if they're gonna remix it or funk it up differently when I see them."”
“Ability to excel in an activity despite scarcity of facility is a defeat of inequity.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.”
“Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.”
“Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.”
Source: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
“Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.”
Source: Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities
“Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is such who prate of empires, political or economic, that will last a thousand years. It is only the scholar who appreciates that all history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. It is only the scholar who understands why the raw wilderness gives definition and meaning to the human enterprise.”
“Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice”
“Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.”
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
“Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.”
“Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.”