Quotes About Capacity

There are handbooks for everything, and very soon education, all the world over, will consist in learning a greater or lesser number of comments by heart, and people will excel according to their capacity for singling out the various facts like a printer singling out the letters, but completely ignorant of the meaning of anything.

He knew himself to be a man with a true capacity for adoration, an area in which most of his fellow men, being uncivilised ignorant brutes, were sorely deficient. It had therefore been painful to him that almost all the women he pursued had, quite quickly after his pursuit began, done their best to run away.

Proximity to calamity released the human capacity for love.

Willpower is itself a biological phenomenon. You can change your life, and yourself, through effort and discipline—but you have whatever capacity for effort and discipline you have in this moment, and not a scintilla more (or less). You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that's success for me.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.