Quotes About Merit

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Seventeen months captivity to a sailor accustomed to the boundless ocean, is a worse punishment than human crime ever merited.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...

No one gets what they deserve.

In damnation, the sinner receives what he deserves; in salvation, the saved sinner receives what he does not deserve. Judgment is all of merit; salvation is all of grace.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love