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“Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.”

Believe Children Purpose I Believe Common Expression Limits Concern Parenting Practicals Reasonable Consistent Capability

Author:Fred Rogers

“To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means...the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger”

Way Mean Force Grows Strength Training Bigger Stronger Train Muscles Capability

Author:Nasser El Sonbaty

“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.”

World Life Might Courage Capable Bravery Brave Witness Performing Capability Be Brave Memorial Day

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”

Ifs Believe Belief Goal Attitude Meditation Positive Confidence Optimistic Buddhist Believe In Yourself Capability If You Believe Believe You Can Pads Launching Power Of Belief

Author:Denis Waitley

“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.”

“The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”

Real Done Motivational Success Ability Successful Capable Capability Contests Doing You

Author:Geoff Gaberino

“We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.”

World Change Growing Diversity Complexity Capability

Author:Lachlan Murdoch

“How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.”

Persons Confidence Tasks Capability

Author:Robert Breault

“Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

Persons Helping Learning Teaching Training Performances Coaches Coaching Teamwork Capability Maximizing Unlocking Untapped Potential

Author:Timothy Gallwey

“One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.”

Source: Path To Tranquility

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

Inspirational Believe Motivational Spiritual Motivation Belief Impossible Inspirational Life Function Accomplish Mindset Who We Are Capability Impossibility Possible And Impossible Power Of Belief Achieving The Impossible

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.”

Humans Body Success Sports Normal Athlete Motivational Sports Capability Arena Human Will

Author:Aimee Mullins

“I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.”

Knows Trying Space Quality Struggle Capability Imperfect Sweating

Author:Robert Genn

“We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past”

Thinking Motivational Past Attitude Limits Capable Entrepreneur Potential Capability Human Potential

Author:Vivek Paul

“If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Reason Force Military Historical Aspiration Capability Preparing Justified Military Force Harbour

Author:Dick Cheney

“Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.”

Home Body Space Scales Capability

Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

“We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face.”

People Faces Technology Groups Possibility Changed Raises Threat Terrorism Terrorist Dimensions Realistic Capability September September 11 Science And Technology Small Groups September 11th

Author:Michael Chertoff

“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”

Men Seems Literature Virtue Capable Temper Capability Defying

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.”

Winning Challenges Greatness Inspire Ultimate Depth Capability Provoking Achieve Greatness

Author:Billy Mills

“A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.”

Ifs Knows Men Art War Seems Order Deals Higher Aim Objectives Behave Target Capability Bows Imitation Art Of War Prudent Skillful Aim High Archer Prowess

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own”

Reason Values Opportunity Education Ignorance Importance Sake Educational Objectives Inequality Capability Literacy Elimination Illiteracy

Book:Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives

Source: Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives

“If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.”

Ifs Humans Self Philosophy Literature Consciousness Educational Characteristics Capability Self Consciousness

Author:Albert Bandura

“There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.”

World Inspirational Trying Hard Dream Sports Player Achieve Becoming Harm Being The Best Capability Inspirational Sports Best Players

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.”

Despair Claims Depth Height Capability

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)”

Ifs Men Wells Self Hours Known Moral Sacrifice Morality Denial Holiness Resolution Judged Capability Well Known Chastity Habitual Self-denial

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.”

Ifs May Chance Failing Failure Strive Judgement Capability

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.”

Ifs Giving Loyalty Vanity Capability Scorn

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.”

Life Is Crazy Talent Tragedy Capability Rust

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.”

Firsts Action Born Acting Capable Capability Suggesting

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders of our country. At that time, commercial electricity was not economically feasible, but President Harrison wanted to affirm his confidence in the technological capability of our country.”

Firsts Country Light Wanted House President White Leader Technology Economy Our Country White House Capability Electric Technological Electricity Presidency Residence Electric Light

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.”

Should Happens Values Growth Business Greater Core Cycles Assets Capability Platforms Buyers

Author:Charles Koch

“... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.”

Real Character Influence Willing Habit Circumstances Conviction Doctrine Free Will Our Future Capability Formation Real Power

Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

“Unlike much of orthodox medicine, alternative approaches to healing typically honor the wisdom and capability of the human body. Their goal is often to support and strengthen the powerful healing forces already at work within us.”

Humans Body Force Goal Powerful Healing Support Honor Approach Medicine Alternatives Orthodox Capability Human Body

Book:Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing

Source: Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing

“The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.”

Action Emotion Brain Complexes Capability Organs Our Thoughts Constructs Our Actions Sensory Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Eric Kandel

“Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.”

Opportunity Leadership Leader Environment Rewards Capability Equitable

Author:Elliott Jaques

“In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.”

Want Should Facts Young Generations Conditions Sufficient Capability Young Generation

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.”

Ifs Moments Might Jobs Risk Limits Technique Pushing Capability

Author:Nigel Kennedy

“Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.”

Persons Given Waiting Ability Existence Unique Valuable Realization Capability Innate Fruition

Author:George H. Bender

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

Thinking May Literature Ability Subjects Equal Capable Refuse Shoulders Capability

Author:Horace

“Capability means imagination.”

Mean Imagination Capability

Book:Think and Grow Rich: 2016 Special Edition

Source: Think and Grow Rich: 2016 Special Edition

“We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.”

Knows Men Believe Doe Success Time Belief Creation Capable Capability

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.”

Solitude Misfortunes Capability Incapable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.”

Wise Taste Capable Praise Capability

Book:The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Source: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

“Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.”

People Long Strong Decision Mistake Intellect Firm Reaching Capability Incapable Firm Decisions

Author:James Callaghan

“Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.”

Heart Prayer Capable Capability Containing

Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

“Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.”

Certain Capable Refuse Great Things Capability

Author:Mencius

“It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.”

Men Asks Capable Vain Capability

Author:Epicurus

“As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.”

Ifs Knows Persons Might Literature Goodness Capable Capability

Author:Elias Canetti

“It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered by Chomsky, argues that this is only explicable if certain deep, universal features of this competence are innate characteristics of the human brain. Biologically speaking, this hypothesis of an inheritable capability to learn any language means that it must somehow be encoded in the DNA of our chromosomes. Should this hypothesis one day be verified, then lingusitics would become a branch of biology.”

“I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.”

People Ifs Believe Children Use Problem I Believe Liberty Vision Practice Meditation Conditions Medical Capability Suitable Lsd Conjunctions Problem Child

Book:LSD, my problem child: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science

Source: LSD, my problem child: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science

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