Ability Quotes - Page 15

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables. I have no control over that. That would be up to people.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.