Ability quotes

Explore inspiring quotes about the immense power and limitless potential of human ability. Discover motivational words that encourage you to push your boundaries and achieve greatness. Unleash your hidden talents and embrace the extraordinary abilities that reside within you.

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

- Gary Miller

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

- Rick Larsen

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

- Robert Half

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

- Ambrose Bierce

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

- Doug Coupland

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

- Roy L. Smith

Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.

- Gerry Adams

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

- David F. Houston

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

- Xun Zi

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.

- Martin Feldstein

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

- Katherine Dunham

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

- Baltasar Gracian

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

- Lou Holtz

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

- Mike Pence

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

- Thomas Carlyle

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

- Roy L. Smith

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

- Trevor Rabin

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

- Ron White

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

- Malcolm Wallop

I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

- Gerry Beckley

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

- Ike Turner

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

- Neil LaBute

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

- Tacitus

A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest.

- Bill Munson

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

- Sam Snead

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

- Lawrence Eagleburger

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

- Luc de Clapier

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

- Ray Knight

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

- Ronald Steel

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

- Lee H. Hamilton