Capable Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

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.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

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.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.