I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

— Ricky Williams

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

— Max Eastman

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

— Margaret Thatcher

Jeffrey Feldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

— Matt Mullenweg

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

— George Will

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

— George Bernard Shaw

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

— Adam McKay

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

— David Rockefeller

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

— Allan McNish