Quotes About Merit

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

You have to earn your place and work hard.

This country is based on a simple bargain, and that bargain is if you work hard, you get to get ahead.

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

I have always had the same philosophy throughout my career: work hard for your club, and if you get selected, it's because the hard work was seen by the head coach.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

You need to get female talent which is good enough to compete at the right level because no team is going to compromise on on-track performance just to tick a gender box.

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

Sometimes a team loses a Copa tie and suddenly the competition is downplayed. It's not a good excuse to say that the Copa has no merit.

Honour is not bestowed upon merit.

My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

The roster of Nobel laureates... is cluttered with mediocre writers who have neither elegance nor depth, readability nor relevance: lauded during their lifetimes, they died, I'm sure, convinced the had substantially advanced their languages. Your Miss Dickinson died equally convinced no one would ever read a word she wrote; and she is one of the most luminous poets your country has produced. An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven.

Endeavor to deserve her

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

God's grace comes to us unmerited, the theologians say. But the grace we extend to one another we consider it best to withhold in very many cases, presumptively, or in the absence of what we consider true or sufficient merit (we being more particular than God), or because few gracious acts if they really deserve the name, would stand up to cost-benefit analysis.

Sería estúpido ignorar que entre los individuos hay inteligentes y tontos, diligentes o haraganes, inventivos o rutinarios y lerdos, estudiosos y perezosos, etcétera. Y sería injusto que en nombre de la «igualdad» todos recibieran el mismo salario pese a sus distintas aptitudes y méritos.

Într-o clasificare dup? merite, pe primul loc se afl? militarii. ÎÅŸi fac datoria, se Å£in foarte puÅ£in de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, t?ranii. (…) Urmeaz? funcÅ£ionarii, întreprinz?torii, comercianÅ£ii. LiteraÅ£ii ÅŸi intelectualii – ultimii. Chiar ÅŸi dup? preoÅ£i… O adun?tur? de canalii.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.