Capacity Quotes

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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?

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

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.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

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

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.