Quotes About Merit

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

Whoever you are, you have to prove your worth.

It is always a good thing that whoever is getting a chance in the playing XI has been performing well.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we have the movies come out on that, and that's fine. But it shocks me when, having done this a few times, when I really believe a movie should get a wide release, and I struggle to get it released. That does surprise me.

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Why do I have to earn it by being good? Don't you feel like bragging?" "It's better when you beg," he said, his voice low. "It's always better when you beg.

ability promoted regardless of background.

Shall I ask Captain Ungari if he wants to volunteer?" inquired Illyan with a suppressed ripple of his lips. "No. You will operate independently. God help us. After all, if I don't send you someplace else, you'll be right here. So the scheme has that much merit even if the Dendarii never do anything.

bear in mind that this time around it was impossible to become a senior officer by merit alone; it was done by browning the tongue.

La modestie n'exclut pas la satisfaction d'être approuvée et appréciée comme on l'a mérité.

The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

MULTI SUNT VOCATI, PAUCI VERO ELECTI 'Many are called, but few are chosen

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

To abstain from action is well—except to acquire merit.' 'At the Gates of Learning we were taught that to abstain from action was unbefitting a Sahib.

It is an infinite merit to be able to despair.

And those of us who work hard and follow the rules would not "deserve" our success in any deep sense.