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“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.”
William Shakespeare
,
Othello
“the merit in all things consists in the difficulty.”
Alexandre Dumas
,
The Three Musketeers
“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.”
Milan Kundera
,
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“don't over-estimate your own merits.”
Bertrand Russell
,
The Conquest of Happiness
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
Jane Austen
,
Pride and Prejudice
“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
J. K. Rowling
,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”
Jane Austen
,
Persuasion
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”
Jon Krakauer
,
Into the Wild
Related topics
narcissism
reputation
loser
birth
growth
failure
difficulty
happiness
desire
youth
choice
guilt
discontent
perfectionism
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Alexandre Dumas
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Jon Krakauer
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The Three Musketeers
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Othello
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Conquest of Happiness
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Atlas Shrugged
(1)
Persuasion
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Into the Wild
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