Quotes about capability

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“We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves”

“Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]”

“Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking
after himself.”

“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”

“I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.”

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

“I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.”

“Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.”

“I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry… I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.”

“Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.”
-Elizabeth Bennet”

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”

“Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.”

“Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity”

“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”

“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”

“People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

“By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.”

“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

“Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”

“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”

“once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.”

“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”

“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”

“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”

“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”

“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions—none more so than the most capable.”

“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.”

“DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.”

“The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”

“Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.”

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”

“So few people know what they're capable of.”

“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”

“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”

“… to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender…”

“And what about magic?”
“What about it?”
“Will you teach me?”
“You don’t even know if you’re capable of doing magic.”
“How do I find out? Is there a test or something?”
“Yes, we cut off your head. If it grows back, you can do magic.”

“Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.”

“A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.”

“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.”

“People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.”

“If Paris were missing, he´d want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal”

“It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.”

“The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.”

“I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.”

“Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so”

“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.”

“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”

“That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”

“God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.”

“The mind of man is capable of anything.”

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”

“We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

“What is Aldous capable of?"
"Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything."
"Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?"
"So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.”

“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.”

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

“Be your own worst critic.
When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't.
Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.”

“Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.”

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.”

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

“It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.”

“I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.”

“things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision”

“I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.”

“I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”

“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.”

“There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.”

“Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”

“Only children believe they're capable of everything.”

“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”

“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”

“How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?”

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

“to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.”

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

“Children are capable of such open rudeness.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”

“I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out.
It is faster this way. Your legs are short.”
They are not!”