"I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese."

--- Adrien Broner

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."

--- Alexander Graham Bell

"My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation."

--- Allyson Felix

"Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change."

--- Ann Landers

"Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride."

--- Anne-Marie Slaughter

"For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours."

--- Barack Obama

"There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led."

--- Bergen Evans

"Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone."

--- Bob Galvin

"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing."

--- Bobby Bonilla

"Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human"

--- Veronica Roth

"Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart."

--- Tara Brach

"Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it."

--- Christopher Heyerdahl

"when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus"

--- Corrie Ten Boom

"The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction."

--- Dale Carnegie

"When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly."

--- Dan Deacon

"There are leaders, and there are those who lead. Leaders are those who hold a position of power or authority. But those who lead are those who inspire us. And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them."

--- Simon Sinek

"A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed."

--- Daniel Kahneman

"The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction."

--- Douglas MacArthur

"When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams."

--- Roger Delano Hinkins

"Intelligence is the ability to solve problems"

--- Robert Kiyosaki

"Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world."

--- Richard Rohr

"From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in."

--- Richard Dawkins

"It is my hope that I can stand before you in two years and report back that our side, as well as the president's, found within us the ability to set differences aside, to provide relief to so many millions of Americans who simply want their life to work again."

--- Eric Cantor

"Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it."

--- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child."

--- Peter Gallagher

"I have no faith in my ability to judge things."

--- Ozzy Osbourne

"Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man."

--- Germaine Greer

"Teaching is the ability to inspire learning."

--- Nick Saban

"No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others."

--- Napoleon Hill

"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."

--- Jack Nicholson

"Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see."

--- Masaru Emoto

"No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful power. Once you realize this, you will then be filled with the desire to help others realize this as well. More and more people are resonating with this understanding, and this could result in a more wonderful future for mankind. (165)"

--- Masaru Emoto

"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

--- James Weldon Johnson

"Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose."

--- Marla Gibbs

"I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images."

--- Mandana Dayani

"Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources."

--- Jim Rohn

"One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams."

--- Jim Rohn

"They have more ability in the middle of the field in terms of ability"

--- Jimmy Armfield

"Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please."

--- Lois Gould

"No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal."

--- L. Ron Hubbard

"The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son."

--- Jose Antonio Vargas

"I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives."

--- Judy Blume

"If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard."

--- Kelly Ripa

"When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered."

--- Kamala Harris