Capacity building Quotes

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature

Arnold Bennett

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history

Cornell Capa

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.

Roger Porter

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Frederick Buechner

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Seth Lloyd

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Pablo Casals

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak

Baruch Spinoza

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

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

Eric Hoffer

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all

Wallace Stevens

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

Harvey Broome

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Ezra Pound