Quotes
Quotes about Ability
Out of my lean and low ability
I 'll lend you something.
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.
"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
And this new start meant a new leaf, life, willingness to atone, a search for stability, a fresh persona.
Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you're living in a mad world
Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you are living in a mad world
A ruler's job is to promote the bearability of life
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
How come you are so fond of all those probability people? Because they are never negative.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.
The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.
How come you are so fond of all those probability people? Because they are never negative.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
