Capacity Quotes - page 50

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident. (Christian D. Larson)
I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues. View quote
John Howard
Never underestimate your own capacity to care. View quote
Neil Strauss
Just as vision is inseparable from our spiritual intelligence, our capacity to handle ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity is bound up with our emotional intelligence. View quote
Danah Zohar
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
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. View quote
Lysander Spooner
A free society can survive only through men and women of integrity. Fortunately, there still exist human beings who remain concerned about moral and ethical values and justice toward others. These are the individuals who provide hope of the ultimate realism that is marked by a society's capacity to survive rather than be eventually destroyed. View quote
Hyman G. Rickover
Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out. (Conor Oberst)
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result. View quote
Louis Sachar
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief. View quote
Adyashanti
But it is human beings collectively, not a small number of elites working in secret, who can decide what kind of world we want to live in. Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism. And that's what is happening now, thanks to the revelations brought about by Edward Snowden. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
The relative stability of the system is... largely determined by its capacity to adjust to the demands of the actors affected by changing political and environmental conditions. View quote
Robert Gilpin
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is 'touched by God.' View quote
Pablo Picasso
Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. View quote
Henry Louis Gates
There appears to be an innate human tendency to underestimate the capacity of those who do not belong to "our" group. Those who do not share our background cannot have our ability. Foreigners, people who are in a different economic status, and the young seem invariably to be regarded as intellectually backward. View quote
Robert Maynard Hutchins
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything. View quote
Charles Dickens
I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create... View quote
Erich Fromm
I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create... (Erich Fromm)
Few have at once both thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own. View quote
Eric Hoffer
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. View quote
Eric Hoffer