#capable

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

— Lou Holtz

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Lewis Cass

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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. ↗

— Catherine II

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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. ↗

— Chris Cooper

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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