Top 480 Capable Quotes

We’ve seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We’ve seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

When I went into GM there was a lack of morale. The company had gone bankrupt and the people who worked there were embarrassed. Underneath all of, though, there was a will to show what they were capable of, but nobody knew exactly what to do.

I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

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.

I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.

For so many in the UK, the social contract is broken – the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll reap the rewards. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies are just as capable of fixing the social contract as they are to weaken it further.

We never really know what people are capable of until the only person they can rely on is themselves.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I really want to prove to people that I’m capable of leading a franchise, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be the No. 1 team to select me.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

That’s what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

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

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

At any given moment, I’ve always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you’re capable of, and you have to not care.

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an exit mechanism for troubled members, or it should embrace a closer political union: an effective governance structure that is capable of enforcing rules.

It’s important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

I’ve been playing football for a while, but Guardiola really made me a better player. I was 29 when I started working with him, so I wasn’t very young, but if you see the steps I made thanks to him, it shows you what he is capable of doing. Guardiola didn’t just put me on the flanks but in other positions as well.

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you’re capable of is really special.

I’m capable of a ton of work. My Kirby gene has been fully activated. And by that, I mean the capability to draw many pages.

The rockets… can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess ‘outer beauty’ and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

People with disabilities are capable and deserve the same opportunities as everyone else.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

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.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

It’s not that my father didn’t love me, it’s just that he wasn’t capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they’re wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.

I have the good fortune of working with two brothers who are very accomplished, incredibly smart, and very capable.

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.

People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it – they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it – and that’s exactly what my ‘Maximize Your Life’ show will do.

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old – and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

You know, my mum’s always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you’re capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That’s where you could really shine if you were really good at it. But then all the Westerns stopped, and I was capable of doing car stunts, motorcycle stunts and high falls. I could do it all.

Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is ‘decisive’ and ‘competent.’

I think a lot of women could be making great music but still don’t feel like they’re capable – in fact, I know that’s the case for a lot of young girls who try to do music.

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

I’m not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god.

America is carrying out policies against Russia and its leadership. They know I’m among those ready to give my life for Russia and that I have a good army capable of attacking and defending. We’ll see who comes out on top.

When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it.

We must be capable of writing our own history.

Raise your ambition beyond where you’re capable of now. There’s nothing about my hometown that said I’d be working with Fortune 50 CEO’s, Olympians, at the highest level.

The Government’s mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.