Quotes on Capacity

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.