Quotes on Capability

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.