Capable Quote by Anonymous

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

— Neville Goddard

Man is what he wills himself to be.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

— Octavio Paz

a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.

— Octavio Paz

Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself?…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of…

— Anonymous

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even…

— Anonymous

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast…

— Aristotle