The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor E. Frankl

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Henry Miller

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Charles M. Schulz

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon