Individual Capacity Quotes

Talent is one of the few things that can't be created. It can be enhanced - it can be coached and brought out of people - but you can't deny it.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

Everyone in heaven will be fully blessed, but not everyone will be equally blessed. Every believer's cup will be full and running over, but not everyone's cup will be the same size. We determine in time what our capacity for appreciating God will be in eternity.

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities....In all that the people can individually do for themselves, government ought not interfere.

I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.

It is impossible to differentiate between what I say in my individual capacity from what I say as President.

We can't all do everything.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.

I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

We can't all wake up and know everything.