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 

What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” Oscar Wilde

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.” DMX

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.” Joel Osteen

Don’t just count your blessings. Be the blessing other people count on.” Anonymous

Another  day another blessing.” Anonymous

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” C.S. Lewis

Write your hurts in the sand. Carve your blessings in stone.” Anonymous

If we counted our blessings instead of our money, we would all be rich.” Linda Poindexter

God bestows his blessings without discrimination.” F.F. Bruce

There is blessing hidden in every trial in life, but you have to be willing to open your heart to see them.” Anonymous

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.” Thomas Godwin

I have too many blessings to be ungrateful.” Anonymous

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” Ralph Marston

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.--Evelyn Underhill (Mysticism) 

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.--Franz Kafka 

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.--Plotinus (The Enneads) 

Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.--George MacDonald 

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