The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Burke Edmund 1729-1797
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken
together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Davidson Sara
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.
Forbes Malcolm S. 1919-1990
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Goncharov Ivan 1812-1891
Obolomov
You lost your ability for doing things in childhood, in Oblomovka ... It
all began with your inability to put on your socks and ended by your
inability to live.
Hammarskjöld Dag 1905-1961
Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.
Huxley Thomas 1825-1895
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether
you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Luckman Charles
Success is that old A B C - ability, breaks and courage.
Pollard J. G.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Punch 1841-1992
What sort of a doctor is he?
Oh well, I don't know very much about his ability;
but he's got a very good bedside manner!
Rockefeller John D. 1839-1937
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffe. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
The Devil's Disciple
Martyrdom ... the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947
Dialogues
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.