Quotes About Merit

One gets paid back in the way one deserves.

By framing the problem around my simple scenario, we had a way to evaluate the merit of specific feature ideas: Will this feature get more people further along in the scenario? Will this get them more rewards when they publish? We decided feature ideas that address these goals were more important than all others.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice. I want your heart on merit, in mutual trust, or not at all, because I cannot bear to see you made uneasy by me. I have failed and disappointed you often enough before. Not for all the world would I do so again, and I leave it to you to tell me how to proceed, if and when you can, if and when you will.

Glory seems to bestow herself like a whore on those least worthy.

Life wasn't about deserving anything. It was about earning everything.

He was not above calling a book unreadable. But their literary merit wasn't important at this moment. They were words strung together to represent the firing of neurons and the transferring of information through synapses. They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired ', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

I'm now learning to love your law as fatherly instruction to your beloved children, as a revelation of the good, the true, and the beautiful, not as a formula for merit, acceptance, and favor.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

But it seems to be a law of human constitution that those that deserve shall not have and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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Because the world does not deserve them.

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

The paltry character of most men compels the few who have any merit or genius to behave as though they did not know their own value, and consequently did not know other people's want of value; for it is only on this condition that the mob acquiesces in tolerating merit. A virtue has been made out of this necessity, and it is called modesty.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Virtue is the giving of undeserved.

One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita mérito a la gente