34 Ability Quotes

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.

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

Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?

'I think I've always had the abilities, but the object has been to perform as well as I can.'

I can levitate birds. No one cares.

Yoga powers. To make oneself invisible or small. To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things. To change the course of nature. To place oneself anywhere in space or time. To summon the dead. To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds, in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.

I was appointed by Hitler to succeed Canaris because it was well known and proven that my abilities were greater than those of Canaris.

Mr Dyson is absolutely unusual in his ability and accomplishments. I can say without reservation that he is the best I have ever had or observed.

The best horseman of his age.

Hell, Chuck Yeager could do it in his sleep while on fire, I'm sure.

Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position. Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.

Yeah, so I'm short. But wait'll you see me dance.

Could she help it that she has been given a combination of genes that gave her an extraordinary memory, an enormous capacity for grasping and understanding ideas, and a mind that was able to make connections that no one else could see?

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

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Ce n'est pas assez d'avoir de grandes qualites, il en faut avoir l'economie.

Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Rokossovsky was a different type of general from Zhukov. Although a good soldier, he was not exceptionally brilliant.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Men take only their needs into consideration-never their abilities.

Take it from me - he's got the goods.

He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.