Capable Quotes:
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
Katherine Johnson
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke
I just think that we’re capable of so much more; we don’t utilize all our capacity like we should.
Marcus Allen
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic – less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don’t agree.
Anna Maria Chavez
An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Thomas Traherne
In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.
Dominique de Villepin
I’m interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I’m capable of going. In real life, I’m not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.
Tom Cullen
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Charles Sanders Peirce
There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.
Liz Vassey
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Jane Porter
They’re my best friends. We think of Gigi as the brains in the family – something most of the world doesn’t know – and my favorite thing about Bella is that she’s a free spirit who never lets anyone set limits for her. They can be really protective, but they’ve taught me not to let other people define what I’m capable of.
Anwar Hadid
In order to make characters real – no matter what the character is doing – you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
Regina Doman
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own – it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
Cliff Shaw
As to the ‘St. Michael,’ the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.
Peter Paul Rubens
The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.
Emma Bonino
Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
L. Neil Smith
Violent crime is a solved problem – all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
L. Neil Smith
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It’s in real life that people are over the top.
Todd Solondz
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
Julian Barnes
But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don’t agree with that, because I don’t think we’re capable of doing that.
Brent Scowcroft
We are all more capable than we could ever imagine or admit to.
Priscilla Chan
You – and I have to remind myself of this – are capable beyond your wildest imagination.
Priscilla Chan
The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don’t need Brussels telling them how to manage things.
Jim Ratcliffe
What I can’t quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can’t understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
William Ames
Iran is not interested in a war. Iran is capable of defending itself and teaching a very harsh lesson to anybody who commits aggression against Iran, but we’re not interested.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
Virginia Foxx
Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you’re capable of. It’s only two teams on that Monday night.
Jerry Rice
I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite – and one of the most capable – choreographers out there right now.
Harry Shum, Jr.
I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?
Moshe Vardi
Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it’s great that he’s coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.
Hugh Shelton
I’m a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven’t learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
Julianna Baggott
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers – not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
Rodney Brooks
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
Sarah Zettel
The fear that you come to a show called ‘American Horror Story’ with is yours. That being said, I’m glad people are afraid, and I hope that I’m contributing to their fear. I’m really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I’m not afraid of what I’m capable of.
John Carroll Lynch
As an actor, I’ve given up judgement of evil, as long as it’s human evil – we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we’re capable of horrific things.
John Carroll Lynch
If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can’t expect to have our cake and eat it too.
Sigmar Gabriel
Drone manufacturers have yet to create a drone capable of delivering packages while operating at a decibel level that isn’t disruptive to communities.
Robin Hayes
Well, she managed to – Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I’m not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
Ted Olson
Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.
Gerald Chertavian
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Barack Obama
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
Viktor E. Frankl
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals’, the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
Maria Montessori
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden