Ability Quotes And Sayings

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“What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. ”
– Charles Bukowski

“It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. ”
– Confucious

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! ”
– J.K. Rowling

“I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books–whether it’s strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives. ”
– Cecelia Ahern

“Total commitment, I said. “You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?”
– Sarah Dessen

“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. ”
– Suzanne Collins

“Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, ’cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands. ”
– Sue Monk Kidd

“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

“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. ”
– Steve Marboli

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
– P.G. Wodehouse

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
– Raymond Chandler

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ”
– Douglas Adams

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts. ”
– Corrie ten Boom

“We’re all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser points. But we define ourselves by the choices we have made. We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices. Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. it is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more ”
– Woody Allen

“Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.”
– Ilona Andrews

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
– Steve Marboli

“Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. “But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
– Lauren Oliver

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away. ”
– Charles Dickens

“We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are. ”
– Brandon Mull

“Yes. I owed my life, Angel’s life, and my mother’s life to a mutant’s ability to create industrial-strength snot.”
– James Patterson

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. ”
– Malcolm X

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. ”
– Yann Martel

“We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours. ”
– Barack Obama

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
– Lou Holtz

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man’s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”
– Helen Fielding

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
– Stephen Hawking

“The story is always better than your ability to write it. ”
– Robin Mckinley

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning ”
– bret Easton Ellis

“How despicably I have acted! she cried; “I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.”
– Jane Austen

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