Ability Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.”
– Maya Angelou

“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ”
– Martin Luther King Jr

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”
– Winston Churchill

“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus ”
– Corrie ten Boom

“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives. ”
– fred Rogers

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light. ”
– karen Marie Moning

“Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning ‘
– Andy Warhol

“A human doesn’t have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. ”
– Markus Zusak

“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. ”
– Ayn Rand

“As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us–but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience. ”
– Jostein Gaarder

“In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. ”
– Patrick Ness

“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event. ”
– Milan Kundera

“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. ”
– George Lucas

“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom.”
– Jarod Kintz

“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne. ”
– Tina Fey

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. ”
– Brian tracy

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
– Plato

“I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken. ”
– Muriel Barbery

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not. ”
– Thomas henry Huxley

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ”
– John Wooden

“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. ”
– Ron Paul

“Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. ”
– Bill watterson

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular. ”
– Lisa Lutz

“When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life. ”
– Lyanla Vanzant

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
– karl Marx

“I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body ”
– Margaret Cho

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. ”
– Milan Kundera

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ”
– William james

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
– Bill gates

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