Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. (Quote by - James Baldwin)

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. (Quote by - Heywood Broun)

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. (Quote by - Franklin D Roosevelt)

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most. (Quote by - Allan Border)

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage (Quote by - Charles Luckman)

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

Others have done it before me. I can, too. (Quote by - Corporal John Faunce)

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. (Quote by - John Wooden)

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten. (Quote by - Marylin Monroe)

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." Adele Fasano . (Quote by - Adele Fasano)

A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can." (Quote by - Plutarch)

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. (Quote by - Tacitus)

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot. (Quote by - Dale Adams)

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. (Quote by - Mickey Mantle)

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. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. (Quote by - John Hancock)

It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world. (Quote by - rudyard kipling)

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. (Quote by - William DeMille)

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)

I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)