Capable Quotes

• 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

  Hard Times, Goal, Giving

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• We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.

  David Blaine

  Believe, Thinking, Stronger

  "Illusionist plans 44 days in suspension" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2003.

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• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

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

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Friendship, Change

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• You are capable of more than you ever thought.

  Richard Machowicz

  Aim High, Behave, Persist

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• The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Letting Go, Meaningful

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Are You the One for Me?: Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong”, p.246, Dell

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Motivational, Cute

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 18, 2014

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Mistake, Thinking, Perfect

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• To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Too Late, Enviromental

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• Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Creating, Today

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• We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

  Octavia Butler

  Confidence, Climbing, Permit

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

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• I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

  Maya Angelou

  War, Lessons, Humans

  "Goal Mapping : How to Turn Your Dreams into Realities" by Brian Mayne, (p. 84), 2006.

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• I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Encouraging, Want, Becoming

  Journal, 1922

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• I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

  Nas

  Wings, Giving, Imagination

  Song: Thugz Mansion

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• No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

  Socrates

  Workout, Bad Ass, Men

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• We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Time, Struggle, Knowledge

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• You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Cutting

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.

  Arthur Blank

  Running, Inner Strength, Might

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• If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, Exaltation, Alive

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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