Quotes about Ability

In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

There is a use herein of the natural abilities of invention, memory, and elocution. Why should not men use in the service and worship of God what God hath given them that they may be able to serve and worship him?

Whoever, therefore, hath this ability to know the mysteries of the gospel, he hath it by free gift or donation from God. He hath received it, and may not boast as if it were from himself, and that he had not received it, as the apostle speaks, 1 Cor. iv.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .