Ability Quotes

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception".

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.

Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't.

Our ability to give back to society is what matters most.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

The truth is we have a consistent purpose that we got from our founder, some values that we share - those are persistent, too. It's not just change. But that's the thing that people underestimate about Walmart right now, that it has an ability to change.

Until we're serving humanoid robots and they have the ability to spend money, we're serving people. We're going to put people in front of people.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Income was wisely chosen as the measure of benefits and of ability to pay. This was, and still is, a wholesome guide for national policy.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.