#capacity

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#capacity #cheerfulness #courage #disappointment #face

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#attain #broadcasting #capacity #could #gift

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#battle #canada #capacity #could #during

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#going #mind #overboard #requisite

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#capacity #full #long #mind #shape

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anywhere #appear #believe #capacity #i