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 RandStichwörter: talent meritocracy nobility ability aristocracy birthright
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 DessenStichwörter: achievement worth ability treasured
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroStichwörter: ability
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis BaconStichwörter: ability
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 GoetheStichwörter: ability
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 GoetheStichwörter: ability
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 GoldsmithStichwörter: ability
Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius CiceroStichwörter: ability
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas A. EdisonStichwörter: ability
The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
Muhammad YunusStichwörter: poverty poor ability
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