Ability
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
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Ability Quotations
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Confucius
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius
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.
Confucius
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Ability Translations
ability in Danish is egnethed
ability in Dutch is bekwaamheid, kundigheid
ability in Latin is potestas, facultas
ability in Norwegian is dyktighet
ability in Portuguese is abilidade
ability in Spanish is primor, habilitacion, habilidad
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