Quotes About Merit

you're a carnivore, you're a carnivore, so what's the merit of fine distinctions?

Si ganas es porque los otros son peores, no por un mérito. [...] Uno triunfa no por su genialidad, sino por su menosmalidad. Por ser menos malo que los otros.

Invariably. We are educated out of common sense, curiosity, and any real merit. We are made to be decorative and worthy of display, with occasional forays into procreation and good works, but nothing more.

We are educated out of common sense, curiosity, and any real merit. We are made to be decorative and worthy of display, with occasional forays into procreation and good works, but nothing more.

You do not deserve what you think you deserve, But you Deserve what you do.

Never reward a solder for doing whats expected

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Curiously enough, Sanson's assistant disapproved of Dr Guillotin's invention. it had ruined the profession by making it too easy. facility always opens the doors to amateurs. In olden times, in order to cut off a head with the axe, one needed some training in the profession, not to mention a few natural gifts such as a sharp eye and a steady hand. But what merit is there in manipulating a machine which does the whole job for you?

we have little empirical knowledge about the connection between merit and success

to create true equality of opportunity,

The gift cannot be received unless it is given, for otherwise it would cease to merit its name. The basin is not filled up by the cascade from above unless it ceaselessly empties itself into the basin below. Only the abandonment of that which fills it permits that the stream to come should fill it without cease.

There was only food for those who could pull their weight.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favoured, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.

Wealthy parents have long relied on a properly timed donation to improve their children's chances at admission to college.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

There is no merit in our political parties.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.

Salaries should be set based on production and contributions, not positions.