Capable Quotes
2237 quotes by 1598 authors
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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than…
— Paulo Coelho
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Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
— Cheryl Strayed
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My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen…
— Paulo Coelho
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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
— David Eagleman
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Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then…
— Carlo Collodi
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A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be…
— K.J. Parker
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And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy—the kind of joy that can't be reproached,…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing…
— Veronica Roth
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There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to…
— David Levithan
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My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.
— Abbi Glines
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I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can…
— Veronica Roth
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Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
— Trudi Canavan
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Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.
— Pittacus Lore
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Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to…
— Francis Chan
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A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture,…
— Milan Kundera
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Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.
— Claire LaZebnik
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8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's…
— E. Lockhart
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Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can…
— Charles Colson
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