capacity quotes

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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

My range is limited.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

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.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

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.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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.

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

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.