Ability means the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment or can also be defined as possession of the means or skill to do something.

There are many different opinions and ways in which ability can be defined, so today sharing few quotes and sayings about ability by famous people, with a hope that they would help you to understand it in a better way. Hope you enjoy reading them!

Do not lower your goals to the height of your abilities. Instead, heighten your abilities to the level of your goals.
Author Unknown

Ability is what gives you the opportunity,belief is what gets you there.
Apollo

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden

If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of.
John Barrow

You were born with the ability to change someone’s life, don’t waste it.
Author Unknown

Ability ”It Isn’t Bragging If You Can Do It ”
Dizzy

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
Zig Ziglar

Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.
Sally Hogshead

It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
Jerry Rice

Each Day allows you to Begin Again. As you wake up remind yourself that your Future is not yet written. You have the ability to make it what you will.
Author Unknown

Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind (1997)

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner

Disability is the Inability to see Ability.
Vikas Khanna

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Your Ability To Imagine Will Help The Next Logical Steps Come To You Faster. Use Your Imagination Until Your Big Dream Feels So Familiar That The Manifestation Is The Next Logical Step.
Abraham Hicks

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Author Unknown

Tell me that I can't and I will show you I can.
Author Unknown

Nothing Can Challenge Your Ability Even Difficulties Cannot.
Kelvin

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit
W. Somerset Maugham, The Creative Impulse (1926).

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte, As quoted in Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life (1985) by Joe Moore

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Winston S. Churchill

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the ‘versal world but what you can turn your hand to.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part I, Book III, Chapter XI.

Ability ,Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Success … depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Sophie Tucker

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonaedo Da Vinci

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Dean Koontz

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

It’s not about having the skill to do something. It’s about having the will, desire & commitment to be your best.
Robert Hernandez

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.
Henry Ford

Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Leo Tolstoy

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder, as quoted in The Story of Stevie Wonder (1976) by James Haskins, Ch. 1 : Growing Up in a World of Darkness.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Chapter II.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Creativity Is The Ability To Make Or Think Or See Or Hear Something That Did Not Exist Before.
Author Unknown

Banks For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott

Consumers view high gas prices as a threat to their living standards and a threat to the ability of the economy to create new jobs.
Richard Curtin

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Winston Churchill

Our only security is our ability to change.
John Lilly

The Difference Between Ability & Character Ability Will Get You To The Top But Character Will Allow You To Stay At The Top.
John Wooden

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul (1993)

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon, Essays.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T Washington

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V.

Success is that old ABC – ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard, “The Crying Need”, in A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things (1901), page: 163.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden

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

No one is born happy but every one is born with ability to create happiness.
Author Unknown

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

It takes 10000 hours to develop talent. How many hours have you clocked today?
Author Unknown

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard, “The Crying Need”, in A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things (1901).