“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
As quoted in Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life (1985) by Joe Moore
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Napoleon I of France 259
French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821Related quotes
“Ability without honor is useless.”
Original: Avere la capacità di comunicare sempre agli altri ciò che si pensa, significa offrire loro una vera opportunità di fiducia.
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“Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“There is no inspiration without being armed with the ability of self-talk.”
“The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.”
Friendship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.”
In [Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition, https://books.google.com/books?id=5lzMtwXckcEC&pg=PT109, 2010, Penguin, 109]