Quotes About Merit

Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they're not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the '70s.

I really believe if I'm the best person for the role, I'll be hired. That's always been my experience.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

Being awarded the OBE was a great honour and something I had not been expecting.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

One who makes merit rejoices in this life, Rejoices in the next, Rejoices in both worlds. Seeing one's own pure acts brings joy and delight.

The modulating principle of "salary according to merit" has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory, perpetual training tends to replace the school, and continuous control to replace the examination. Which is the surest way of delivering the school over to the corporation.

Unlike many such recipients of government largesse, however, she had qualifications beyond race, sex, and religion.

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

I'm not sure I'd be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it's a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.

It's hard to feel sorry for those willing to fling themselves into disaster. They are their own undoing, my dear. They bring it upon themselves. They don't merit your pity.

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But in fact, blacks ran into all manner of discrimination in sports and music. They simply would not be deterred. Their excellence and merit ultimately prevailed over all else.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Why, all his virtues are derived from his station only; because he is rich, he is called generous; because he is powerful, brave