Ability Quotes

Your ability to use the principle of auto-suggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to CONCENTRATE upon a given DESIRE until that desire becomes a BURNING OBSESSION.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

If you fill your mind with FEAR, doubt and unbelief in your ability to connect with, and use the forces of Infinite Intelligence, the law of auto-suggestion will take this spirit of unbelief and use it as a pattern by which your subconscious mind will translate it into its physical equivalent.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Skill helps, and cunning is good, but savagery wins.

Sensibility, imagination, reason, serve each other. Each one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of strength, if it were not modified or completed by the totali of our being.[La sensibilité, l’imagination, la raison, servent l’une à l’autre. Chacune de ces facultés ne serait qu’une maladie, qu’une faiblesse au lieu d’une force, si elle n’était pas modifiée ou complétée par la totalité de notre être.]

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.