Capacity Quotes

I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.