Quotes about Ability
The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community.
— Billy Graham
The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.
— Booker T. Washington
Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.
— Fred Craddock
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
— Frederick Douglass
Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
— Henri Nouwen
No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.
— Dick Cheney
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
— Elbert Hubbard
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.
— Oscar Romero
With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
— Francis Chan
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
— Margaret Atwood
To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen