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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Enemy, Friend

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Few, Social, Opinions

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Past, Blame

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm

Selfish, Others, Themselves

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Life, Passion, Small

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success, Peace, Best

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mahatma Gandhi

Problem, Between, Difference

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Fact, Getting

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Best, Alone, Failure

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison

Ourselves, Literally

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success, Best, Become

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Mind, Energy

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow

Life, Days, Less

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau

Treat, Nor, Esteem

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

Attitude, Motivation, Ability

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

Attitude, Motivation, Ability

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John Wooden

Success, Peace, Best

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato

Human, Two, Arts

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato

Known, Reasoning, Hardly

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Barack Obama

Big, Challenges, Biggest

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, End, Become

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Soren Kierkegaard

God, Cannot, Grasping

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, End, Become

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken

Society, Thought, Original

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Getting, Themselves

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes

Politics, Business, Democracy

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Money, Human

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

Person, Teach, Teaching

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

Nothing, Afraid, Getting

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

Love, Truth, Important

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