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"General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few." »Adolph Hitler
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"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement." »William Shakespeare
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"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." »James A. Garfield
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"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." »James A. Garfield
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"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself." »J. B. Priestley
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"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong." »Pierre Charron
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"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong." »Pierre Charron
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." »Henry Ford
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"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." »Lillian Eichler Watson
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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." »Winston Churchill
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"I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures." »Basil W. Maturin
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"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith." »John Foster Dulles
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." »Paula Poundstone
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"account no man happy till he dies." »Euripides
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest." »Professor Irwin Corey
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." »Douglas Adams
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"Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness." »M. Hirschfield
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"I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him." »Goethe
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"Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man." »William Shakespeare
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"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account." »Haniel Long
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"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." »Oscar Wilde
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"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." »The Talmud
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"One main reason the US has been able to prevent its currency and economy from collapsing, despite the latest wars, huge debt and massive currency printing, is because the dollar is the de-facto standard for international trade and reserve currency." »Med Jones
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." »Joseph F. Newton
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