Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands… — Stephen Kendrick
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only… — Alfred Nobel
It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies… — Sherry Turkle
Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people. — Mariane Pearl
To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian… — Peter J. Gomes
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous. — Jon Ronson
Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the… — Harlan Lane
The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic,… — Joanna Macy
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating… — Christopher Flavin
Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they… — Carlos H. Amado
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. — Jacqueline Cochran
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. — Aldo Leopold
Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity… — Ayn Rand
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do… — Howard Zinn
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice… — Nelson Mandela
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can… — David Simon
We are educating people out of their creative capacities. — Ken Robinson
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity. — Barbara Tuchman
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather,… — Gustav Stresemann
Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is… — Frank Capra
Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is… — Molly Peacock
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others. — Will Tuttle
Don't be fooled into thinking that you have the capacity to achieve your best on your own. A training partner in the gym is a… — Brian Houston
Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in… — Ina May Gaskin

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