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May you find great value in these Capable quotes and sayings.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
We are not what we are,
nor do we treat or esteem each other for such,
but for what we are capable of being.
- Henry David Thoreau
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
- John F. Kennedy
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
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