"To become capable, one must have faith in oneself."
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"I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it."
"Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses."
"Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build"
"What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of."
"Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish."
"Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil."
"Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another."
"I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love."
"There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines."
"We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness."
"When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane."
"I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often."
"You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered."
"Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change."
"When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves"
"All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience."
"I am competing with what I am capable of."
"That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying."
"Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding."
"We are all more capable than we think we are."