Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
Sidney Poitier

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.
Katherine Dunham

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.
Frank Lampard

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
Lawrence Eagleburger

A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Madeleine L'Engle

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Harold Wilson

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
Sting

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Joni Mitchell

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
Little Richard

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
William Hazlitt

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Herman Hesse

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow

Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
Lord Mountbatten