Ability Quotes - Page 9

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

  Mark Haddon

  Light, Difficult Situations, People

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• Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Memories, Inspiration

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

  Golda Meir

  Fall, Hair, Mark

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Strength, Inspiring

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Sacred, Spirituality

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.163, Dell

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• If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

  Bill Gates

  Work, People, Giving

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• I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

  Dominic Savio

  God, Religious, Christian Inspirational

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• The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

  George Lucas

  Power, Cells, Giving

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Acceptance, Control Someone, Able

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2016

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• In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

  Kenneth Grant

  Imagination, Magic, Important

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• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Way, Rebellious

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• Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

  Zoroaster

  Men, Light, Divine

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• My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Anxiety, Acne

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

  Ben Stiller

  Creative, Tests, Comedy

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Light, Hands

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

  Suzanne Collins

  Confusing, Looks, Mess

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.184, Scholastic Inc.

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• The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambition, Men, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Acting, Together, Virtue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

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• To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

  Lawrence Welk

  Joy, Use, Able

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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