Quotes about Ability

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

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

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

There was not a man in the party but believed that with a little practice he could stand in a row, especially if there were others along;

Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

People's desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.