5,022 Quotes About Ability

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it. And you shall see.And you shall hear.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Getting a university degree wrecks your ability to get disability payments later in life.

The true sign of acceptance of oneself is the capability to share your story without proofreading it first.