Quotes About Merit

Scores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

There is no happiness that isn't earned

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.