Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.--John Henry Newman 

Ability is of little account without opportunity.--Napoleon Bonaparte 

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

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

Ability without honor is useless.--Marcus Tullius Cicero 

All of us are, to some extent, victims of what we are. We are not limited by our imaginations, but by our ability to do what we imagine. We are not too often limited by our abilities as much as by circumstances. And we are not as often limited by our circumstances as much as by the lack of the will to respond.--Dee Bowman (That's Life!) 

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.--Norman Vincent Peale 

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.--Lou Dorfsman 

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.--Roy L. Smith 

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

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.--Gracie Allen 

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.--Gail Hamilton 

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.--Roger Babson

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.--Diana Vreeland 

Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world.--Frederick Ward Kates 

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.--Goethe 

Beauty is at the heart of God, and the beauty that we see — and even create — is like the trailing wake from God's hand across the ocean of the universe. This is why, in attending to beauty, we become open to the mystery of God.--Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki 

Beauty is everywhere to he or she who would behold it. When God reigns supreme in the consciousness of man, the tiniest blade of grass speaks of God's beauty.--Frater Achad 

Beauty is God's handwriting.--Charles Kingsley 

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.--Al Bernstein 

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.--David Hume ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations) 

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.--Khalil Gibran 

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.--Jean Anouilh (Becket) 

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.--George Sand 

Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.--Bertha Damon (A Sense of Humus) 

Beauty you may have with you always, if you will but plant beauty in your heart.--Fred De Witt Van Amburgh 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.--Helen Keller

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.--John Wooden 

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.--Dale Turner (Seattle Times, 4/24/99) 

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.--Abigail van Buren 

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.--Faith Baldwin ("July" Harvest of Hope) 

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.--Helen Keller 

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.--James A. Michener (Chesapeake) 

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.--Jacqueline Bisset 

Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education.--O'Shea 

Character develops itself in the stream of life.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

Character is always more caught than taught.--Chip Ingram (Effective Parenting in a Defective World) 

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.--Abraham Lincoln 

Character is power.--Booker T. Washington 

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.--Arthur Trudeau 

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.--Calvin Coolidge 

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin 

Character is what we are. Competence is what we can do. Character and competence drive everything else in an organization.--Stephen R. Covey (First Things First) 

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.--Helen Gahagan Douglas 

Character may be manifested in the greatest moments, but it is made in the small ones.--Phillips Brooks 

Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.--Joan Didion

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein 

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook) 

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion 

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham 

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker 

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create) 

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001) 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon 

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim 

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton