Ability Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ~

Thomas Alva Edison

~ The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it. ~

Brian Koslow

~ All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ Politics is 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

~ Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. ~

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

~ I have a Disability yes thats true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you. ~

Robert M. Hensel

~ There is nothing special about falling in love. This is habit, this is routine, this is a learned natural ability. ~

Zoe Trope

~ Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude. ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Really a great deal of intolerance for their being stuck in the water and their inability to change. ~

Richard Fisher

~ Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. ~

Brian Tracy

~ One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment. Of course there are some illusions the disillusionment of which is healthy. It takes two things to bowl over a tree a heavy wind outside and decay inside. Much of the moral wreckage is caused by inner cynicism a disgust with life's futility, an inability to see sense in it. A person in that mood is an easy mark for the next high wind. ~

Art Sisson

~ Three things differentiate living from the soul versus living from ego only. They are: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time... So, it is not from the ever changing ego that we love one another but rather from the wild soul ~

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

~ Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identityadvance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary. ~

Jean Baker Miller

~ Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old. ~

Frank Kafka

~ Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. ~

Brian Tracy

~ Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. ~

Rensis Likert

~ Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. ~

Unknown

~ The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce ~

Virginia Gildersleeve

~ The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take. ~

Kofi Annan

~ The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts ~

Heywood C. Broun

~ I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. ~

Hank Aaron

~ Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. ~

Brian Tracy

~ The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company ~

Seneca

~ Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. ~

John Dewey

~ I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not. ~

Porter Arneill

~ There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. ~

M. Scott Peck

Rensis Likert

~ Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts ~

Steve Pavlina

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