Quotes About Merit

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media.

I like to take credit for the work that I have done.

I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

Let the path be open to talent.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

We should judge by talent and work not by community or caste.

Nepotism will never give you success, but talent can.

I know that I'm talented, and I know that I'm not in American Ballet Theater because I'm black - I'm here because I'm a gifted dancer.

Gender diversity brings prosperity - to the country that sees its economy grow, to the business seeking to raise its profits, and to the woman who gets the job her efforts and talents merit.

People who buy your product or use your service don't care how tall or short you are, or what gender you are, or your age. It is irrelevant. That is not the basis on which your product is judged.

The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God.

Augustine, the faithful interpreter of them, exclaims: "Our Savior, to teach us that belief comes as a gift and not from merit, says: `No one comes to me, unless my Father ... draw him' [John 6:44], and' ' . . it be granted him by my Father' [John 6:651. It is strange that two hear: one despises, the other rises up! Let him who despises impute it to himself; let him who rises up not arrogate it to himself.

But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousand miles of coral reef win first prize? Man's self awareness, sheer conceit. There was no way to prove that sperm whales and sequoias were not philosophers and poets exceeding any human merit?

That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy

we tend not to begrudge others their success or care how high the socioeconomic ladder is, assuming that everyone has an equal chance to climb it, given equal merit and energy.

Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

Da giovane è facile credere che ciò che desideri sia ciò che ti meriti, è facile convincersi che se davvero vuoi qualcosa, è tuo sacrosanto diritto ottenerla.

Excellence is praised." "Praise inspires excellence.

Être aimé sans mérite, c'est la preuve d'un vrai amour

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.