Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

Ayn Rand

Stichwörter: talent meritocracy nobility ability aristocracy birthright



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It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.

Sarah Dessen

Stichwörter: achievement worth ability treasured



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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Stichwörter: ability



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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon

Stichwörter: ability



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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stichwörter: ability



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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stichwörter: ability



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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Oliver Goldsmith

Stichwörter: ability



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Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Stichwörter: ability



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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 A. Edison

Stichwörter: ability



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The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Muhammad Yunus

Stichwörter: poverty poor ability



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