Capacity Quotes

3,320 quotes from 2,111 authors

Capacity isn’t just a measurement; it’s a story of growth, limits, and possibility. Across thousands of voices, you’ll find reflections that span personal ambition, societal potential, and everything in between, giving a rich picture of how we think about what we can hold or achieve.

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“her capacity to take up no capacity at all”

Leslye Walton

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Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Cyril Connolly

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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Daniel Barenboim

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Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ive always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.

Pete Coors

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Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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“Intelligence is capacity, smart is what you do with it”

Alamgir Mand my brother

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We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

Warren Buffett

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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

Lance Armstrong

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This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.

Isaac Hecker

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The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

Claire Cameron

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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

Adam Ferguson

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If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to…

Michael Ventura

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For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

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The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Robert Breault

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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species…

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully,…

John Shelby Spong

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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me…

Anonymous

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I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to…

Linda Perry

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When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

Criss Jami

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You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel…

Jeb Bush

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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity…

Salman Khurshid

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As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might…

Nikki Glaser

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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that…

Idries Shah

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I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond…

Gordon B. Hinckley

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Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does…

Oswald Chambers

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To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this…

Cornel West

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A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health…

Aldo Leopold

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All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half…

Margaret Fuller

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What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just…

Friedrich Nietzsche

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What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a…

Peter Singer

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People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the…

Arthur Gordon Webster

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I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,…

Charles Dickens

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I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary…

Paul Verlaine

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We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark…

Russell Baker

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Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . .…

Colin Powell

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Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.…

John Stuart Mill

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I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of…

Noam Chomsky

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Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.…

Dee Hock

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