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 

I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.--Madame de Stael 

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents.--Hortense Canady 

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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 

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 

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.--Hannah Arendt (Rachel Varnhagen) 

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.--Lord Greville

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” ~ W. Clement Stone

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” ~ R. G. Ingersoll

“It takes courage to walk away from disagreements.” ~ Amanda Ray

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” ~  Seneca

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams

“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brown

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself’.” ~ Mariah Carey

“They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.” ~ Curtis Joseph

“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” ~ Hermann Hesse

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

“The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost

“Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ~ Lana Del Rey

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” ~ William Ellery Channing

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”~ Khalil Gibran

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”~ Vincent Van Gogh

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” ~ Criss Jami

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.” ~ Michael Jordan

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” ~Bruce Lee

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles 

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956) 

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones 

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard 

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter) 

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) 

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford 

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart) 

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant 

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.--Konrad Adenauer 

Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design) 

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell 

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.--Patrick Henry 

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea) 

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.--Abigail Van Buren 

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.--Bryan Adams 

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.--Raymond Holliwell 

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.--Pete Seeger

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.” - John Piper

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile" - Max Lucado

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."  - Tony Evans

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

If you can’t fly, then run, If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter." - Francis Chan

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" - D.L. Moody

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read." - John MacArthur

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."  - Eleanor Roosevelt

He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain." - Randy Alcorn

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one" - A.W.Tozer

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things.  It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'." - Elisabeth Elliot

There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God." - Alistair Begg

Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done."  –C. S. Lewis

This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet." - Beth Moore