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Quotes About Capacity

None meets harm who knows his capacity.
~ Idries Shah
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
~ Bernard Law Montgomery
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
~ Barbara Jordan
A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.
~ Layne Redmond
All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.
~ Julia Gillard
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.
~ Maryanne Wolf
I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.
~ Chris Hughton
China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
~ Francois Hollande
Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour.
~ Sharan Burrow
At Wembley, it's difficult for the fans to come there and make it your home. Sometimes the stadium wasn't full because the maximum on the capacity.
~ Toby Alderweireld
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
We know too much for one man to know too much.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.
~ Robert Greene
All men have an equal disposition for understanding.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
~ James Russell Lowell
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
~ William James
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
~ James Bryce
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
~ Dorothy Day
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
~ Lytton Strachey
The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
~ Muhammad Ali
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
~ Ralph Steadman
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
~ Robert A. Heinlein