Quotes About Merit

Hard work will always be recognised.

I always want to be recognised for the work I do and not the company I keep.

If I do well for my club, I will get recognition.

There's a lot of good Latin personnel out in baseball, coaching, in the front office, and it's nice to be recognized. But I really believe I'm here because of my merit, not because of any race or anything like that.

I want to be recognized for my performance as an athlete and not because of who I am.

There are a lot of people who don't believe I deserve to be recognized as one of the top-10 best and I don't necessarily disagree with them.

The focus has to be about making good work. I don't ever want to be hired for a job because I'm a woman. And I don't ever want to be recognized for a job because I'm a woman.

I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.

It's very nice to meet people who just get on, work hard, and don't have things handed to them.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

If you're a top 10 guy you should pay a top 10 guy or even a top 5 guy what he deserves, whether it's a lightweight or a heavyweight.

Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system.

Rewards given to those who have not earned them through competition are thus immoral. They violate the entire system. They remove the incentive to become self-disciplined and they remove the need for obedience to authority. But

In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is good. Nor is there any way of definitely proving that--for instance--Warwick Beeping is bad. Ultimately there is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

at bottom it is always a writer's tendency, his "purpose," his "message," that makes him liked or disliked. The proof of this is the extreme difficulty of seeing any literary merit in a book that seriously damages your deepest beliefs.

When one does get any credit in this life, it is usually for something that one has not done.

En resumidas cuentas, en este mundo, cada cual consigue lo que se merece. Pero sólo quienes alcanzan el éxito lo reconocen. - Georges Simenon

I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

After your debut, it doesn't matter whether your parents are actors or factory workers. All that matters is whether you can get the job done.

Legal immigration should emphasize merit and meeting the needs of the U.S., including specific unmet workforce needs.

In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

Sometimes you decide games, but you can't decide a competition. So, Messi's merit is not undone because he hasn't won a World Cup.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.