Quotes About Merit

Most Americans didn't distinguish fame from accomplishment.

And this filmmaker has the most extraordinary epiphany! He realizes that there is as much merit in trying to ease people's suffering for a moment as there is in "focusing" on it. To ease someone's pain through a distracting, silly, joyous laugh is his lesson. I know there is suffering, so to escape it for a second is truly powerful. That is one church I am staying loyal to. The Church of Laughing.

In the United States, for example, two equally skilled and disciplined athletes—one a world-class gymnast and the other a world-class basketball player—are likely to enjoy wildly different degrees of fame and fortune through no fault or merit of their own.

The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

The first five—generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, and concentration—are related to the sublime accumulation of merit, while the sixth paramita corresponds to the great accumulation of wisdom.150 Aside from these two accumulations of wisdom and method united, there is no other means of attaining buddhahood.

Teacher Wei's situation was very bad. She was a junior high school math teacher, and before the Cultural Revolution she had been a Model Teacher. Her study wall was covered with certificates of merit. Now she was called a black model, and because her father was a capitalist and her mother had committed suicide, she was criticized all the more.

He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it)." People

I imagine there are few, if any, in the World, so weake as to imagine, that the little Good we can do here, can merit so vast a Reward hereafter. There

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

Promotions create awareness, but if there is no merit to the film, what will promotions do anyway?

Sometimes, more money is spent on promotion of a film than the making of it. I don't understand that logic. The movie should run on its merit.

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?

There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.

To publish – the socialization of one's self. A vile necessity! But still not a real act, since it's the publisher who makes money, the printer who produces. It at least has the merit of being incoherent.

El amor no es una condecoración, capitán. No siempre se concede al mérito o a la virtud.