Capable Quotes

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

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.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.