Definition of Capacity

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Capacity

The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.

Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.

Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.

Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.

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Capacity Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Capacity Translations

capacity in Latin is facultas, concepta
capacity in Norwegian is kapasitet
capacity in Spanish is habilidad

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