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Quotes about Capacity

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.
— Margaret Atwood
Third, Yahweh also speaks of exposing the powerlessness of the nations' so-called gods and the uselessness of their so-called insight and capacity to decide what will happen in the world (e.g., Is 19:1-17).
— John Goldingay
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
— John Haggai
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
— Ayn Rand
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
— John Ortberg
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
— Desmond Tutu
In comparison with this big world, the human heart is only a small thing. Though the world is so large, it is utterly unable to satisfy this tiny heart. Our ever-growing soul and its capacities can be satisfied only in the infinite God.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God's grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.
— Sam Storms
. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
— Gordon Hinckley
God has given you your identity, and that cannot be taken away. God has imbued you with infinite potential, and that cannot be taken away. God has provided you with the opportunity to change your thinking in an instant, and that cannot be taken away. God has given you the capacity to love, and that cannot be taken away. God has entrusted you with the power to live in the light of His abundance in any moment, and that cannot be taken away.
— Marianne Williamson
Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.
— Marianne Williamson