Best capacity & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.”

Wells Self Care Able Understanding My Own Careers Capacity Self Knowledge Self Care Nurturing

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.”

“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.”

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.”

Self Reality Spiritual Spirituality Individual Depends Capacity Connections Depth Access Consideration Connectedness

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.”

Firsts Self Helping Shows Hands Able Rights Generations Share Self Help Willing Ready Citizens Capacity Weight Regard Mere Republic Passengers Good Citizen Sturdy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .”

Want Real Self Remember Term Civilization Limits Capacity Increase Contentment Restraint Deliberate Restriction Indulgence Self Indulgence Real Happiness Multiplication

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.”

Ifs World Want Children Self Play Feelings Self Esteem Building Projects Creating Capacity Structure Enormous Esteem Internals

Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

“In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”

People Self Lasts Social Poor Situation Produce Expression Resources Capacity Chaos Desperate Rebellion Existential Sensibility Poor People Resorts Avenues

Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.”

“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”

Way Self Hard Individual Given Responsibility Generations Hard Work Discipline Capacity Self Discipline Fortitude Relentless My Generation Grim Individual Responsibility

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.”

Men Humans Made Self Use Human Beings Stupid Self Improvement Capacity Tools Regard Instruments Improvement Makers Autonomy Binding Initiation Short Sighted

Book:Manhood of humanity

Source: Manhood of humanity

“With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.”

World Wells May War Self Nations Interest Poor This World Higher Capacity Destruction Luxury Technological Poor People Self Interest Self Destruction

Book:The Grand Chessboard

Source: The Grand Chessboard

“Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.”

Years Self Weapons Capacity Protection Fifty Combat Self Control Cigar

Author:Sigmund Freud

“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”

Men Humans May Self Human Beings Alive Development Men And Women Capacity Destruction Infinite Appearance Despite Self Development Self Destruction

Author:Idries Shah

“Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.”

Self Business Talent Degrees Capacity Originals Business Success Commonplace Uncommon Owing

Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings

Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings

“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.”

“Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.”

Men Mind Self Mankind Self Love Capacity Narrow Minds

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.”

Mind Humans Self Capacity Infinite Deception Human Mind Self Deception

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.”

“I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so that they can actually be in a fiduciary capacity where the artist comes first or the client, whoever the client happens to be.”

People Thinking Firsts Self Problem Happens Artist Capacity Greed Clients Fiduciary

Author:Shep Gordon

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.”

Knows Writing Humans Has Beens Self Dies Fall Empathy Capacity Cancer Giants Fabric Limitless Spectrum Gogol

Author:Regina Spektor

“When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.”

Thinking Way Giving Book Real Self Brain Products Civilization Reflection Capacity Agency Civilized Self Reflection Civilized Society

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.”

“Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.”

Self Black Capacity Criticism Slavery Slave West Prisoner Initiative Tribes Exceptional Rivals Abolition Self Criticism African Tribes Abolishing Slavery

Author:Ibn Warraq

“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.”

“For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness.”

Thinking Self Can Do Greater Keys Higher Capacity Higher Self

Author:T. Harv Eker

“We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us”

Self Interest Capacity Infinite Self Interest

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.”

Self Self Esteem Capacity Essence Workers Esteem

Author:Irwin Federman

“We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.”

Humans Self Capacity Infinite

Author:Charles Colson

“You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.”

Knows Trying Humans Self Capacity Species Deception Self Deception Ingenuity Most Amazing Matched

Author:Ben Aaronovitch

“Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.”

Humans Self Capacity Independence Being Human Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Book:Who is Man?

Source: Who is Man?

“A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.”

“Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.”

Self Body Individual Social Capacity Enjoyment Organisms Components

Author:Raoul Vaneigem

“For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith”

Self Christ Consequence Capacity Righteousness Godliness Self Righteousness

Author:W. Ian Thomas

“You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.”

Writing Self Fiction Records Planets Capacity Abuse Species Stupidity Disaster Cruelty Deception Indifference Righteousness Absurdity Self Deception Self Righteousness

Author:John Irving

“Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedomis becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.”

World Needs Should Ideas Self Use Forget This World Becoming Elements Resources Capacity Locals Relevant Globalization

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.”

Writing Soul Self Helping Term Justice Dark Models Capacity Corners Insight Memoir Sense Of Self Capacity To Love Undecided Love Wisdom

Author:Cornel West

“Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.”

Writing Children Self Hands Bigs Growth Term Differences Written Self Esteem Capacity Notes Commit Esteem

Author:Debra Messing

“I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.”

People Thinking Want Self Matter Passion Discipline Daughter Capacity My Daughter Self Discipline Diminish Nothing Matters Slough Wild Passion

Author:Marianne Williamson

“We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.”

Self Roles Awareness Planets Creatures Capacity Self Awareness

Author:Bryan Kest

“... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.”

People Love Self Done Seems Cold Capacity Stones Bones Dry Indifferent Numb Inhuman Self Absorbed

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.”

Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

“It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not the entrenched cultural power and self-congratulatory moral rhetoric of some people in countries long accustomed to telling other societies what to do and how to behave.”

People Should Long Self Country Moral Intellectual Capacity Criticism Behave Rhetoric Accustomed Relentless Self Criticism Intellectual Freedom Cosmopolitanism

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.”

“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”

Real Self Choices Decision Capacity Decision Making Our Choices Making Decisions Real Self Making Choices Decisions Made Decisions You Make Decisions We Make Choices And Decisions Life And Choices Wise Choices

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

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