Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
FranÃois de la Rochefoucauld
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George E. Allen
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Charles M. Schulz
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Walter Bagehot
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown
Anatole France
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually
Stephen R. Covey