Quotes About Merit

He used to say what you deserve has nothing to do with where you finish.

A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo!

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they're creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can't make it better.

There is mercy enough in God to admit an innumerable multitude into heaven. There is mercy enough for all, and there is merit enough in Christ to purchase heavenly happiness for millions of millions, for all men that ever were, are or shall be. And there is a sufficiency in the fountain of heaven's happiness to supply and fill and satisfy all: and there is in all respects enough for the happiness of all.

This therefore was the merit of the patriarchs, that beside the fact that they were righteous and pious and loved God to the utmost extent, they were also upright. In their relations with gentiles – even the worst idolaters – they acted out of love, and sought their good, for this is what allows the world to endure. Thus we find that Abraham, though he hated their wickedness, prostrated himself in prayer for the people of Sodom, for he wanted them to survive.

She was no demon — no magician — she was better than they were.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

First deserve, and then desire.

Soy lo que soy porque me lo he ganado gracias a errores y esfuerzos previos; es lo que merezco

With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot. 

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

It's a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning.

parents spend their hard-earned dollars sending their children to liberal colleges. Therefore, students assume, there must be some inherent merit in the views of the professors who teach there.

Most economists oppose minimum wage laws, but that never prevents the laws from being written. The living wage movement lives on, not because of any merit, but because it's a popular political move to back anything that "helps the poor.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I am an affirmative action hire.