Quotes About Capacity

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

The greater accessibility of information through computers and the Internet serves to foster the illusion that the ability to retrieve words and numbers with the click of a mouse also confers the capacity to judge whether those words and numbers represent truth, lies, or something in between.

He'd already endured enough guilt in his life. Quite possibly, he'd run out of space to carry any more.

think . . . you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He slides his cuffs up the support and pushes himself to a sitting position. "None

All the powers in the universe are already ours.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

I want to have fun and I want to bring something new and fresh to fan's eyes and have it be something they enjoy, no matter where it is, no matter what capacity. To have an outlet for creativity. That's been my goal.

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.

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning can be both cultivated and encouraged.

Her capacity for love overshadows the stars, lightening crackles malevolently in the wake of her wrath and for all the tangled mess woman brings to man, in her glory, she is the divine Goddess.

Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.

Grove encourages his people to work in small, autonomous work units in which everyone understands the system and their role in it. Each person contributes their knowledge, expertise and creativity. Team members are trained and motivated to produce to the best of their capacity. When crises arise, the team willingly puts in the extra time, energy and brain power to meet and beat the problems faced.