Capacity Quotes
2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors
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Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
— Vince Lombardi
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Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher…
— Gordon W. Allport
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
— Alain de Botton
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
— Dean Koontz
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In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and…
— William C. Menninger
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Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling…
— Irving Townsend
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Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace.
— John Jantsch
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
— Cornell Capa
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During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God-…
— Elizabeth of the Trinity
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At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that…
— Pete Hegseth
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us…
— Morris Graves
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Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within…
— John Chancellor
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Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the…
— Holmes Rolston III
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Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed…
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized…
— Robert Hewison
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Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the…
— Unknown Author
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From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political…
— Charles Edward Merriam
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