Best capable & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.”

Ifs Firsts Country Action Talking Becoming Capable Europe Unions Zone Other Countries Spain Greece Making Changes European Union Euro Portugal

Author:George Papandreou

“But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Believe Littles States United United States Capable Agree Around The World Regimes If You Believe

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.”

Ifs Mean Running Lost Health Buddhism Capable Tendencies Faster More Money Athletics Measuring Adept Lost You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.”

Ifs Goal Progress Capable Productivity Defined

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.”

Ifs Knows Film Actors Capable Built Chosen Lead In

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.”

Ifs Want Despair Capable Overcoming Instinct Killing Satan

Book:Night

Source: Night

“If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.”

Ifs Might Love You Behavior Capable Love Yourself Just Love Yourself

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Life is all about finding yourself through experiences, and about learning more and more about who you are and what you’re capable of. If you’re getting older and not succeeding in anything or doing anything to make a positive impact on people, then you’re not living. You’re just waiting for death. Get out there and make an impact on people, whether it’s by helping them directly or by doing research to make their lives better or just by inspiring them. Do something good to be remembered for. This is more important than money.”

People Ifs Important Helping Life Is Waiting Succeed Findings Capable Research Impact Who You Are Remembered Finding Yourself Getting Old Getting Older Positive Impact Learning More

Author:Zak Bagans

“If you want to be in fashion you have to absolutely love what you do, because it's more than a job - it's your life. This is a very intense and hard business. But don't worry, trust life. Anything you want, you are capable of getting, it just takes a combination of effort and grace.”

Ifs Want Hard Jobs Effort Worry Grace Fashion Capable Intense Combination

Author:Lori Goldstein

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”

Ifs Democracy Capable Resources Library Conviction Utilizing National Intelligence

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.”

Ifs Moments Past Fear Memories Doubt Failing Regret Future Capable Vulnerable Delusion Present Moment

Author:Jan Phillips

“If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.”

Ifs Knows Names Nations Accepting Proud Capable England Shame France Beloved Germany Patriotism Accept Me Fatherland

Book:Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Source: Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.”

Ifs Looks Facts Might Capable Being True Comparison Hypothesis Verification Refutation

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.”

Ifs Writing Looks Artist Song Willing Capable Wounds

Author:Lady Gaga

“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Enough Whole Would Be Running Jobs Party Trouble Team Capable Apples Executives Good Enough Bus Successors

Author:Steve Jobs

“True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.”

Ifs Heart Virtue Objects Goes On Holy Limits Capable Infinite Charity Saint Infinity Definite

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.”

Ifs Humans Persons Seems Women Human Beings Capable

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.”

Ifs Trying Spiritual Like You Capable Intention Miserable Plastic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Whole Given Chance Kings Capable Constitution Assumption

Author:A. P. Herbert

“Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.”

Ifs Enough Emotion Failing Becoming Capable Hungry Drunk Intoxication

Author:Andre Gide

“I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.”

People Ifs Giving Doe Play Steps Roles Creative Failing Fields Capable Lows Shots Balls Sight Luck Limitation Ruined Destined Always Believe

Book:No Regrets

Source: No Regrets

“You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.”

People Ifs Believe Self Young Levels Capable Self Confidence Performing Inventor Innovators High Level

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.”

People Ifs Generations Figures Capable Passing Passings Who We Are Professors Future Generation Passing On

Author:Khalil Gibran Muhammad

“I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.”

Ifs Mother Silence Capable Shocking Speechless

Author:Robyn

“If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Capable Positive Person

Author:Cotton Fitzsimmons

“If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?”

Ifs Humans Might Able Differences Capable Reactions Robots Mystic

Book:Foundation's Edge

Source: Foundation's Edge

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea

“To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Children Sometimes Home Felt Parent Realizing Attention Capable Our Children Handle Relate Our Family Your Children Very Happy Need You

Author:Angelina Jolie

“A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Wise Judgment Capable Prejudice Stronger Kingdoms Breasts Falsehood Multitudes Applause Select Examining Blunders Presumption

Book:The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765

Source: The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765

“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”

Ifs Men Persons Whole Individual Social Understanding Capable Capacity Fellows Institutions Foundation Stability Fellow Man Capacity To Love

Book:Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

“If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never imagined. Because it's in there. It might be lying dormant, but it's there.”

Ifs Doe Might Kids Lying House Wife Capable Dormant

Author:Ronald Perelman

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.”

Source: Falling Through Space

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.”

Ifs Humans Self States Seems Found Nations Levels Numbers Alive Heard Modern Capable Destruction Structure Surprise Persistence Folly Genes Large Numbers Human Society Self Destruction

Author:Lewis Thomas

“[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.”

Ifs Giving Ends Community Succeed Capable Glory Crosses Give Me Instruments Accomplish Trials Nothingness Employed Incapacity

Author:Theodore Guerin

“If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!”

“God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.”

Ifs Giving Ability Capable Receiving

Author:Pope Francis

“If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.”

Ifs Believe Beautiful Fun Social Challenges Fit Capable Smart Come Up Handle Smarter Stem Being Smart Really Smart Beautiful You You Re Beautiful

Author:Danica McKellar

“A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.”

Ifs Taken Atheism Capable Positive Atheism Consideration Tested Criteria

Author:Karl Popper

“Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.”

Ifs Want Enjoy Opinion Imagine Player Becoming Musician Capable Harder Hardest Weekend Hardest Thing Just Do It Composing

Author:John Powell

“Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.”

People Ifs Home Jobs Capable Training Dollars Prison Billions Employment Entrepreneurship Neighborhood Rehabilitation Job Training

Author:Van Jones

“It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.”

Ifs Thinking Important Enough Stuff Bits Difficult Capable Organized Hippie Annoyed Showing Up

Author:Grace Slick

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“If someone says you are not capable or can't have something, keep pushing because you can. And it's not because you're special, but it's because everyone possesses the ability to be awesome. The reason people say, 'No, you can't,' 'God doesn't want you to,' or they make laws is because they know that you have that in you. And they are scared to lose their superior standing.”

People Ifs Knows Want Reason Law Loses Ability Special Capable Standing Scared Superiors Pushing

Author:Philip DeFranco

“If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.”

Ifs Real Ends Self Faces Asks Mistake Capable Glory Mirrors Forgive Yourself Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Maya Angelou

“Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."”

People Ifs May Helping Realizing Levels Ought Messages Capable Negative Treats Expected Absorbing True Potential

Author:Daniel J. Siegel

“If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.”

Ifs Feelings Joy Hurt Capable Being Hurt

Book:A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

“While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.”

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

“The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.”

Ifs May Shows Law Culture Growth Shapes Capable Length Casting Resisting Stature Impediments Casting Off

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

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