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Quotes About Capacity

Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. You are not destined to be a scrub. You are a child of God, of infinite capacity.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
~ Gordon Brown
Most people wish to serve God — but only in an advisory capacity.
~ Author Unknown
Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
~ Jack London
A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.
~ Jacqueline Carey
up most of the room. There
~ Jacqueline Wilson
I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'
~ Greil Marcus
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.
~ Michael Franti
Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Sometimes you look at footballers and think they're selfish or they don't bring a good image to society. But sometimes people underestimate footballers and their capacity to have a strong opinion and sympathy for others.
~ Juan Mata
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
~ Lionel Murphy
Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.
~ Norman Davies
I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
~ Barbara Jordan
The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust.
~ Christine Todd Whitman
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
~ Hermann Ebbinghaus
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
~ Barry Eichengreen
Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity, and earning of it.
~ Idries Shah