Quotes about Ability
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 main mission in life is to help people and use my God-given ability to impact the world. If playing in the NFL gives me a platform to advocate for the issues that are important to me, then let's do it.
- Myron Rolle
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
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.
- Stanley Hauerwas
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Malcolm X
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Cicero
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. ===
- Seth Godin
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
- Clayton M. Christensen