The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.
For me, the Lord has opened the windows of heaven and showered blessings upon my family beyond my ability to express.
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.
Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.
I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.
I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.
The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.
There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
There's never any ability to plan a personal life.
Likable leaders truly believe that everyone, regardless of rank or ability, is worth their time and attention. They make everyone feel valuable because they believe that everyone is valuable.
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
