ability quotes

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. (Robert Frost) [education/ability]
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. (Henry Ward Beecher) [ability/]
• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Andrew Carnegie) [amount/ability]
• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/take/mind/take]
• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/more]
• All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one. (William Shakespeare) [more/ability/more/perfection]
• The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. (William James) [stress/ability]
• What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability. (Thomas Arnold) [look/ability]
• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. (Francis Bacon) [delight/ability]
• Instinct is untaught ability. (Alexander Bain) [instinct/ability]
• Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. (James Baldwin) [ability/discussion/heroism]
• Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. (Jean Baudrillard) [skill/ability]
• Ability is of little account without opportunity. ( Napoleon I) [ability/account]
• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. (Edmund Burke) [ability]
• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/more]
• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/take/mind/take]
• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Andrew Carnegie) [amount/ability]
• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. (Winston Churchill) [ability/wife]
• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Marcus Cicero) [ability/education/more/virtue]
• Ability without honor is useless. (Marcus Cicero) [ability]
• I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. (Marcus Cicero) [ability/education/virtue/education]
• Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. (Joseph Conrad) [men/greatness/ability/quality]
• Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. (Aleister Crowley) [ability]
• In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. (George Eliot) [ability/experience/quotations]
• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/ability]
• The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence. (Henry Ford) [ability/confidence]
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. (Robert Frost) [education/ability]
• I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. (Mahatma Gandhi) [ability/shadow/faith]
• I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. (Jennie Garth) [ability/more/rest/life]
• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. (Samuel Goldwyn) [think/ability/take/advantage]
• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. (Dag Hammarskjold) [time/reputation/ability]

Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wen Thu Fri Sat Jan 10 [110] 11 [58] 12 [128] 13 [18] 14 [100] Jan 15 [63] 16 [50] 17 [91] 18 [78] 19 [60] 20 [50] 21 [50] Jan 22 [97] 23 [89] 24 [132] 25 [132] 26 [62] 27 [78] 28 [50] Jan 29 [85] 30 [102] 31 [71] 1 [85] 2 [53] 3 [42] 4 [100] Feb 5 [8] 6 [81] 7 [115] 8 9 [54] 10

The Best Authors

Search

Pop by Searches

Best Quote

Worst Quote