Capacity Quotes

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Good, Power

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

Everything, Create, Receive

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, Work, Anger

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength, Physical

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James

Success, Men, Positive

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

True, Genius, Uncertain

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson

Courage, Humility, Living

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

Life, Change, Power

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates

Good, Power, Wish

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner

Peace, Knowledge, Live

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Experience, Wise

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

Love, Work, Future

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford

Men, Done, Looking

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.
Ben Okri

Love, Suffering, Create

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Tony Robbins

Focus, Single, Idea

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor

Time, Patience, Waiting

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand

Wealth, Product

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill

Until, Desire, Obsession

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford

Great, America, Problems

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell

Side, Committed, Remarkable

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken

Human, Another, Seems

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett

Important, American, Getting

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

Human, Almost, Granted

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm

Art, Science, Creation

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

Act, Wealth, Create

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle

Genius, Taking, Infinite

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith Viorst

Strength, Break, Hands

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?
Bell Hooks

Time, Humanity, Enough

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer

End, Lost, Earth

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, Reality, Vision

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