Quotes About Merit

People are so quick to say someone is a fantastic player and deserves to win the Ballon d'Or after just one good year. I disagree with that.

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

It's not a problem to be great and do good things.

Do good work.

I know I do good work.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Whether you're a man or a woman - whatever your gender - if you're doing a job, and you're doing it well, you should be paid accordingly.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

He told me, "You haven't earned a spot on my desk. When you do something worthwhile or impressive, I'll put your picture on my desk.

Just because you have a title doesn't mean you deserve respect.

When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander.

Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so.

Not all bits have equal value.

Prove to me that you deserved it.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?