Quotes about Ability

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

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

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

And so- what can we get get done in those few hours and days and weeks and years? We are limited by time and by areas of talent and ability. So our creativity is not on God's level at all. His creativity is unlimited and infinite. Nevertheless we have been created in His image, so we can be, and are made to be, creative.

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.