Browsing Topic Best Capacity Quotes

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Your capacity to say No determines your capacity to say Yes to greater things.

I believe we are powerful but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one’s capacity to love.

Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

If you don’t have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness–they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

I believe China does not need to use force. China is an enormous and powerful economy. It has become the world’s number one economy in terms of purchasing power parity leaving the United States behind. China is capable of achieving its national goals by building up this capacity, and I see no threats here.

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency – your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.