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Quotes About Capacity

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.
~ Marijane Meaker
Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.
~ Hannah Arendt
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"
~ Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
~ Ayn Rand
God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task
~ Sunday Adelaja
The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.
~ Jean Ping
We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!
~ Narendra Modi
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
~ Confucius
Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.
~ Robert Cheeke
Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
~ Alice Walker
Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our "capacity to receive" a blessed and sanctified nature.
~ Terryl L. Givens
No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.
~ Myles Munroe
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
~ Gregory Maguire
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.
~ Sylvia Earle
If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.
~ Silvia Hartmann