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Definition of Ability

Ability

  1. The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.

Ability Quotations

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
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Ability Translations

ability in Danish is egnethed
ability in Dutch is bekwaamheid, kundigheid
ability in Latin is potestas, facultas
ability in Norwegian is dyktighet
ability in Portuguese is abilidade
ability in Spanish is primor, habilitacion, habilidad

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