Able Quotes

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Ayn Rand

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali

Give, Rich, Wish

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Peace, War, Powerful

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Live, Twice

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Understand, Between, Both

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

Pain, Laugh, Play

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Life, Hope, History

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Today, Tomorrow

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell

Big, Question, Adventure

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
Eminem

Career, Understand, Off

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey

Time, Best, Become

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Shall, Willing

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

Greatness, Lies, Criticism

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Pray, Endure

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Ourselves, Task

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman

Smart, Emotional, Matter

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

Rather, Appreciate

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn

Time, Experience, Future

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Truth, Give

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

Happy, Girl, Living

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

Experience, Failure, Cash

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Alone, Quiet

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Robert E. Lee

While, Congress, Eat

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers

Business, Why, Tax

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot

Love, Gratitude, Loyalty

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell

Human, Humanity, System

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

Said, Dislike, Utter

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
Lauren Hutton

Life, Through, Grow

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