Capacity Quotes

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Inspiring, Encouragement

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

  Omar N. Bradley

  Memorial Day, Courage, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Inspirational, Sympathy

  "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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• Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Opportunity, Impossibility

  Charles R. Swindoll (1995). “Collected Works of Charles R. Swindoll: A Collection Consisting of Living on the Ragged Edge”, Arrowood Press

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• In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Self, Careers, Understanding

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• The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

  Cyril Falls

  Leadership, Exercise

  Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”

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• Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Ordinary, Genius

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

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• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Live Life, Facts

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• Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

  Plautus

  Wisdom, Reality, Age

  "Trinummus". Play by Plautus, Act II, sc. 2, line 88,

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• People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.

  Abraham Maslow

  Eye, Order, Capacity To Love

  "Toward a Psychology of Being".

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• The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

  Mark Udall

  Moving, Marine, Army

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• Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

  Bill Lipinski

  Sexy, Issues, Important

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• The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Our World, Cold

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• In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

  Peter Garrett

  Stars, People, Patterns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

  L. Neil Smith

  Bravery, Goes On, Rejects

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• I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

  Derek Jacobi

  Imagination, Actors, World

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• But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Keys, Focus

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• Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Mom, Thinking

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• If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

  Daniel Goleman

  Practice, Attention, Needed

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• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

  Rollo May

  Wish, Weight, Response

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

  Moliere

  Indulge In, Literature, Gallantry

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• 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

  Peace, Political Language, Atrocities Committed

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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