Capacity Quotes
2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors
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Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being…
— Dalai Lama
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The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
— Quentin Crisp
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When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this…
— Erich Fromm
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At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness…
— John W. Gardner
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
— Norman Cousins
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It's…
— Neil Armstrong
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
— William James
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If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem…
— Mark Steyn
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The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
— Aristotle
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Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.
— Jane Smiley
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
— Franz Kafka
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A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support…
— Nelson Mandela
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Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but…
— Michael Ondaatje
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The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
— Arthur Helps
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...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
— Adolf Hitler
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Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
— Henri Nouwen
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The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people…
— Alan Keyes
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Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity…
— Susan Orlean
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
— Boyd K. Packer
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross…
— Watchman Nee
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These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on…
— George W. Bush
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