Capacity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

— Sterling Hayden

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

— Anonymous

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

— Jules Verne

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What…

— Orison Swett Marden

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

— David Foster Wallace

There are some things that can't be measured.

— Julia Gillard

We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.

— Brian Solis

...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

— W. Edwards Deming

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

— Nathaniel Branden

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

— Mark Twain