Quotes About Merit

Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

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

Let me be clear. I don't object to some people being richer, even much richer, than others. I object to gain of wealth through political connections rather than earning it by merit.

even much richer, than others. I object to gain of wealth through political connections rather than earning it by merit. If a basketball franchise pays my neighbor Kobe Bryant $20 million a year because it takes that much to get him, fine. But if hedge fund managers bribe politicians to put a clause in the laws cutting the tax rate on much of their income to a fraction of the percentage the average worker pays, I object.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

Never pose that what you never deserve nor can be.

no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

A nation's economy grows only when money goes into the hands of those who really deserve rather than in the piggy tummy.

A worthy worker gets the work, but not often what he is worth for in terms of position, designation and remuneration in a private organization.

An ass weighs the worth of horses not as per their merit, but on the basis of the value of donkey only; and the same thing happens during the process of recruitment and employee's performance assessment in a private organization.

The pleasure of receiving the rank and rise to a deserving person is in bagging it without asking and not getting it by begging.

There is no publicity that can work as effective as the word of mouth publicity about the right salary, right position and right designation being given to the deserved, employed person of the organization.

Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business, and when you intend asking for a service, go to a person who can appreciate your merit.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Nobility and worth are to be found only among the few, but their opposite among the many; for there is not one man of merit and high spirit in a hundred, while there are many destitute of both to be found everywhere.

Discontents arise not merely from the inequality of possessions, but from the equality of honors. The multitude complain that property is unjustly, because unequally, distributed; men of superior merit or superior pretentions complain that honors are unjustly, if equally, distributed.

Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that's not actually really true.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Quotas are often about quantity and not quality. I think people should get jobs because they are qualified and they can prove they are good at the job.