Quotes About Merit

I don't think anybody deserves anything than what they already have because I believe everyone gets what they deserve.

When a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.

If a guy has served time and served his sentence, he deserves the right to gainful employment, but he does not deserve the right to be put at the front of the list.

I won't pay a guy money that I don't think he deserves.

Nobody deserves anything. What we get, everything is a blessing.

If it were up to me I'd rather sign up the best and most deserving players, since we have to make our fans happy.

But at the end of the day, the lottery of birth shouldn't determine your value to the world.

Your success can't be determined by your surname but only by your work.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

Am I here because of my last name? To a degree. But I would ask people to judge me and my executive team on what we accomplish.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

A good person only is worthy of a high position and can become the king of a nation.

As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has written, "The most common form of hypocrisy among the privileged classes is to assume that their privileges are the just payments with which society rewards specially useful or meritorious functions," while accusing the underprivileged of "lacking what they have been denied the right to acquire.

He went on to explain that "the greatest merit of Chernyshevsky lies not only in showing that any right-minded and truly decent person must be a revolutionary, but also something still more important: he showed what sort of person a revolutionary should be, what rules of conduct he should follow, how he should proceed to his goal, and by what means he should attain it."[18]

Thus for my own part I have more than once been deceived by the person I loved most and of whose love, above everyone else's, I have been most confident. So that I believe that it may be right to love and serve one person above all others, according to merit and worth, but never to trust so much in this tempting trap of friendship as to have cause to repent of it later on. BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, 1478-1529

They forget the favors they have received and imagine they have earned their success by their own merits.

They had a sweety-sweet picture of Jesus over the choir booths that I didn't like at all. Jesus looked like he was a Boy Scout, waiting to get his twenty-first merit badge from the head Scout Master.

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires greater stock of religious merit than he would gain by the repetition of 10,000 prayers. Zen Zoroaster

In Jewish tradition, dying in one's sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.