Quotes Tagged "ability"

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don’t have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most important, you should always remind yourself that you don't have to do what everyone else is doing and have a responsibility to develop the talents you have been given.

It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.

Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.

Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.