Quotes About Merit

You don't get respect if you don't deserve it.

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Abra seu espírito, enxergue a vida como ela é, sinta sua verdade e vá em frente. Você pode. O mérito será todo

Pride and respect are earned, not given by birth.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

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

MY worthiness is all my doubt, His merit all my fear, Contrasting which, my qualities Do lowlier appear; Lest I should insufficient prove 5 For his beloved need, The chiefest apprehension Within my loving creed. So I, the undivine abode Of his elect content, 10 Conform my soul as 't were a church Unto her sacrament.

COBWEBS. The spider as an artist    Has never been employed Though his surpassing merit    Is freely certified By every broom and Bridget    Throughout a Christian land. Neglected son of genius,    I take thee by the hand.

My worthiness is all my doubt, His merit all my fear, Contrasting which, my qualities Do lowlier appear ; Lest I should insufficient prove For his beloved need, The chiefest apprehension Within my loving creed. So I, the undivine abode Of his elect content, Conform my soul as 't were a church Unto her sacrament.

And every animal is better or worse from his own merit (virtue) or his own badness. Is there then no virtue in man only? and must we look to the hair, and our clothes and to our ancestors?

Ho cercato di spiegare ai miei genitori che la vita è uno strano regalo. All'inizio lo si sopravvaluta, questo regalo: si crede di aver ricevuto la vita eterna. Dopo lo si sottovaluta, lo si trova scadente, troppo corto, si sarebbe quasi pronti a gettarlo. Infine ci si rende conto che non era un regalo, ma solo un prestito. Allora si cerca di meritarlo.

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.

I am prepared to see the fundamental humanism of the current Italian films as their chief merit.b They

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.