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Dictionaries have defined 'ability' as the power to do something, of either physical or mental origin. Each and everybody of us are born into world, possessing some abilities. Not everybody possesses all the abilities to successfully complete every task but all of us have a few special or unique ability to pull off a few specific tasks. A software engineer, who excels in writing codes for the ultra innovative software, may not have the ability to cook delicious food and an excellent world famous chef, for sure, won't be able to write those codes. Like 'the parable of the sower', people and their abilities are usually and heavily conditioned by the situations and society, they living in. Go through the quotes to get more insights about ability.

Eudora Welty

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Perfection Photography Time Time Management
Eudora Welty
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Anger
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Change Intelligence
Stephen Hawking
Charlie Sheen

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Doubt Humbleness
Charlie Sheen
Thomas Paine

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Life Army Possible Power
Thomas Paine
Pete Buttigieg

As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.

Value Information
Pete Buttigieg
Caitlyn Jenner

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Caitlyn Jenner
Harry Kane

I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out.

Harry Kane
Eudora Welty

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

People Comparisons Capability Differences
Eudora Welty
Samuel Alito

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Reason
Samuel Alito
Jessica Chastain

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

Desire Women
Jessica Chastain
Lou Holtz

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Attitude
Lou Holtz
William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Greatness Tension
William James
Walter Scott

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Appreciation Obstacles Power Sailing
Walter Scott
Charles Kingsley

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Love Books Zeal Comparisons
Charles Kingsley
Adolf Hitler

Great liars are also great magicians.

Greatness Admiration Appreciation Creativity
Adolf Hitler
Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Motivation Attitude Self Confidence Success
Walter Scott
Thomas Hobbes

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Perception Conscience Intelligence Mankind
Thomas Hobbes
Cameron Diaz

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Admiration Appreciation Praise Experience
Cameron Diaz
Ronald Reagan

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Peace Conflict
Ronald Reagan
Mukesh Ambani

In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.

Reality
Mukesh Ambani
Thomas More

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

Funny Humor Advice Power
Thomas More
Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Achievement Advice Being Yourself Present
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Redford

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

Best
Robert Redford
Stevie Wonder

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Character
Stevie Wonder
Baltasar Gracian

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Greatness
Baltasar Gracian
Wilt Chamberlain

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

Wilt Chamberlain
Walter Scott

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Attitude Overcoming Business Benefit
Walter Scott
Lee Iacocca

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Time
Lee Iacocca
Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Time
Brian Tracy
Kanye West

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Good
Kanye West
Scarlett Johansson

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

Heart
Scarlett Johansson
Dakota Fanning

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Play Parents
Dakota Fanning
Aamir Khan

I understand that I'm able to connect with people; I have an emotional bonding with people. My strength lies in my ability to tell stories and to touch people's hearts and to move them.

People Strength
Aamir Khan
Dalai Lama

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Inspiration Motivation Advice People
Dalai Lama
Toni Morrison

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Power
Toni Morrison
Golda Meir

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Short
Golda Meir
Prince Charles

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

Prince Charles
Orville Wright

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

Work
Orville Wright
Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Motivation Nothing Right Decision
Theodore Roosevelt
Lucille Ball

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Opportunities
Lucille Ball
Michelle Obama

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Confidence Education
Michelle Obama
Katharine McPhee

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

Katharine McPhee
Margaret Thatcher

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Work Jobs
Margaret Thatcher
Ice Cube

With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

Best People
Ice Cube
Dennis Quaid

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Business
Dennis Quaid
Dustin Poirier

I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.

Opportunities World
Dustin Poirier
Philip Rivers

Discover your passion and do it to the best of your ability.

Best
Philip Rivers
Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nature Creativity Order
Eric Hoffer

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

Julian Assange
Karl Marx

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Money Value Virtues
Karl Marx
Michael Sheen

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

Michael Sheen
Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Imagination
Ernest Hemingway
Mickey Rourke

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Mickey Rourke

I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

Peyton Manning
Lou Holtz

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Lou Holtz
Mike Pence

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

Greatness Law
Mike Pence
Vladimir Putin

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

Compromise
Vladimir Putin
Megan Fox

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

Megan Fox
LeBron James

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

Football
LeBron James
Roger Moore

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Good
Roger Moore
Rita Mae Brown

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Writing
Rita Mae Brown
Confucius

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Confucius
Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Francis Bacon
Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Success Success
Zig Ziglar
Dwayne Johnson

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Nagativity World
Dwayne Johnson
Sandra Day O'Connor

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

Disease
Sandra Day O'Connor
Daniel Craig

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

Daniel Craig
Warren Buffett

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Warren Buffett
Lindsey Graham

We have gutted our ability to detect the next attack. And I would not stand for that as president of the United States.

Lindsey Graham
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Opportunities Nothing
Napoleon Bonaparte
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Taxes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nick Foles

I know I have the ability to start, and I have the ability to play.

Play
Nick Foles

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.

Experience Movies
Russell Crowe
Robert Redford

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

Robert Redford
Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Funny
Abraham Lincoln
Mickey Rourke

I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

Life
Mickey Rourke
Eric Hoffer

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Society Zeal Action
Eric Hoffer
Tiger Woods

I lost my ability to will things to happen.

Things
Tiger Woods
LeBron James

I'm confident with my ability.

LeBron James
Robin Williams

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Character
Robin Williams
Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

Positivity Thinking
Zig Ziglar
Al Gore

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

Money
Al Gore
Megan Fox

When you're in something as successful as 'Transformers,' you can't use it as a sales piece for your ability as an actress because it's all about the special effects.

Megan Fox
Emmanuel Macron

What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.

Emmanuel Macron
Jessie Buckley

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

Things
Jessie Buckley
Ilhan Omar

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

People
Ilhan Omar
Napolean Hill

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Desire
Napolean Hill
Ambrose Bierce

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Hawking

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Good Change Earth
Stephen Hawking
Pope Francis

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Pope Francis
Willie Nelson

Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

Good Greatness
Willie Nelson
Confucius

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Confucius
Al Gore

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

Good Facts Faith
Al Gore
Elbert Hubbard

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard
Bernie Sanders

I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.

Power
Bernie Sanders
Harry Kane

I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I'll do that.

Harry Kane
Winston Churchill

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.

Politics
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill

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.

Politicians
Winston Churchill
Keir Starmer

The final Brexit deal must ensure there is no diminution in Britain's national security or ability to tackle cross-border crime.

Security Crime
Keir Starmer