No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.”
— Thomas Carlyle · Avail
The World Motivation
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.”
— Thomas Carlyle · Avail
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Quit Babylon for love of the Babylonians.And do not seek ease or security you can obtain by using Babylon. What will it avail you to cease living in Babylon if you do not also cease living on Babylon?
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Whenever senior players are missing, its ideal for youngsters to avail of these opportunities.
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.