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  • Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -- Omar N. Bradley
  • Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson
  • The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. -- Ben Okri
  • We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Capacity for joy Admits temptation. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. -- Arnold Palmer
  • The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. -- Cyril Falls
  • Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. -- Warren G. Bennis
  • Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away. -- Saadi
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
  • True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. -- Winston Churchill
  • The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. -- Jennifer Aniston
  • Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. -- Ezra Pound
  • Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. -- David Sarnoff
  • Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
  • The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, -- George Armitage Miller
  • Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. -- Ray Kurzweil
  • Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. -- Walter Scott
  • Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. -- Rollo May
  • Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. -- Elizabeth Taylor
  • I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. -- Socrates
  • In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? -- bell hooks
  • To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours. -- Jon Landau
  • Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. -- Leigh Steinberg
  • 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. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. -- Napoleon Hill
  • No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. -- Alan Watts
  • The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. -- John W. Gardner
  • John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. -- Norodom Sihanouk
  • Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
  • We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. -- Isabel Allende
  • The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one. -- Alison Gopnik
  • Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. -- Viggo Mortensen
  • The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. -- William James
  • Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity. -- David A. Bednar
  • If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation. -- Thomas Keating
  • My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar. -- Susan Orlean
  • Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. -- Ricky Martin
  • I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. -- Stephen King
  • To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: 'I don't care, I love you anyway.' There are young kids thinking: 'I'll never come out because it's too hard in our communities.' But I'm saying maybe your story can be similar to mine. -- Colman Domingo
  • First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. -- Queen Elizabeth II
  • Priority determines capacity. -- Andy Stanley
  • Prayer begins where human capacity ends. -- Marian Anderson
  • Revelation is always measured by capacity. -- Margaret Barber
  • Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited. -- Nicolas Chamfort
  • Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers. -- Jim Rohn
  • Women have a greater verbal capacity. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Cunning proceeds from lack of capacity. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Pain is rewarding, in every capacity. -- Christina Aguilera
  • I admire your capacity for admiring. -- Jonathan Franzen
  • Trust in your own untried capacity. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Yoga is your mind control capacity. -- K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion. -- Roger Cohen
  • Power is the capacity to generate relationships. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
  • Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly. -- Radhanath Swami
  • Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity -- Garrett Hardin
  • Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. -- John Huston Finley
  • Never underestimate your own capacity to care. -- Neil Strauss
  • Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan. -- Gerald Edelman
  • Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion. -- John le Carre
  • Genius is an infinite capacity for pain. -- Thomas M. Disch
  • Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. -- Leslie Stephen
  • The five C's of expanding your capacity. -- Sheila Heen
  • God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits -- Michael Novak
  • Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you. -- John Oliver
  • Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. -- Walter Dill Scott
  • Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. -- Margaret Mead
  • Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency. -- Maria Mitchell
  • Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
  • I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. -- Harold Ramis
  • I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. -- John Steinbeck
  • Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment. -- Thaddeus Stevens
  • Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. -- Kathryn Bigelow
  • Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I've never lost my capacity to be shocked. -- Kathy Reichs
  • Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love. -- Lester Levenson
  • Promise is the capacity for letting people down. -- Cyril Connolly
  • Every child has the capacity to be everything. -- Doris Lessing
  • Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • You have the capacity to pursue your dreams. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • As is our confidence, so is our capacity. -- William Hazlitt
  • Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead. -- Mark Millar
  • Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. -- Warren G. Bennis
  • Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. -- Ayn Rand
  • Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains. -- Napoleon Hill
  • Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. -- Plautus
  • The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception. -- Gertrude Atherton
  • The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. -- Susan Sontag
  • Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • The human capacity to be curious has always existed. -- Patricia Cornwell
  • The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine -- George Sand
  • Music has the capacity to create a greater reality. -- Daniel Barenboim
  • The human heart has a staggering capacity for love. -- Helen Beardsley
  • Every one of us has the capacity to lead -- Simon Sinek
  • The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception -- Robert Todd Carroll
  • Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. -- Aldo Leopold
  • It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity. -- Kevin Costner
  • The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. -- Stan Brakhage
  • Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. -- Idries Shah
  • Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. -- Bernard Berenson
  • At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. -- Dante Alighieri
  • The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness. -- G. Campbell Morgan
  • Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate. -- Betty Buckley
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