Quotes About Merit

If I have done a competent job, I should be respected for my competency.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience.

college honors, honors in my major, and Phi Beta Kappa.

John Barclay has well summarized the ethical issue at stake: "The problem here is not legalism (in the sense of earning merit before God) but cultural imperialism—regarding Jewish identity and Jewish customs as the essential tokens of membership in the people of God.

I have…learned that one cannot demand love and respect or require that the bonds of friendship and appreciation be extended as an unearned right. These blessings must be earned. They come from personal merit. Sincere concern for others, selfless service, and worthy example qualify one for such respect.

Sacrificial religion was all exposed in Jesus' response to any mechanical or mercenary notion of religion, but we soon went right back to it in many Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant forms, because the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

Philip had always believed that hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

All men are equal but their graces and abilities separates them and makes certain things possible for them than for others.

Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet. Or trust me, you haven't a chance.

Let none presumeTo wear an undeserved dignity.O! that estates, degrees, and officesWere not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honorWere purchas'd by the merit of the wearer.

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

The force of his own merit makes his way.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.