“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
"Ability is of little account without opportunity." – Napoleon Bonaparte
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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." – Flannery O’Connor
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"Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability." – John Wooden
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary." – Thomas Alva Edison
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"Personal power is the ability to take action." – Anthony Robbins
“Personal power is the ability to take action.” – Anthony Robbins
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"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." – Karen Ravn
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper." – Robert Frost
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"It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown" – Anatole France
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"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." – Abraham Lincoln
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