Quotes about Ability

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It's not for you shows the ability to respect someone enough that you're not going to waste their time. It's the freedom to ignore the critics who don't get the joke. ===

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

You seem to have powers that are hardly human