Quotes About Merit

Every year he would select a few projects that he felt had no merit and would award them a golden fleece. As in "fleecing" the taxpayers.

On October 28, 2008, when Judge Paulo Micheli found Rudy Guede guilty of the crime of murder, following an abbreviated "fast track" trial, the killer of talented British college student Meredith Kercher was removed from society and placed safely behind bars, where he has resided ever since. That same day, the judge also ordered a case devoid of merit or motive to proceed to full trial against the victim's American roommate and her Italian boyfriend.

He said we didn't merit a family all by ourselves. I'm not sure I would go that far, but it's an interesting thought. And an idea influenced, no doubt, by the existence of Jennie. In the end, you see, because of Jennie, he lost his objectivity.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

Karma functions automatically, without the need of some kind of godlike arbitrator. Meritorious acts give rise to good results, and evil causes adverse results. This is a law analogous to natural law. Each person receives upon him- or herself that retribution or rewards for his or her own acts. That is why Buddhist texts do not say "to be punished" or "to be thrown into hell," as though a god were the agent, but rather "to receive retribution" and "to fall into hell.

There's no such thing as merit separated from biography, he had told me. The only question is whether you're going to let your biography hold you down or help you up.

Las personas que consiguen lo que no merecen sufren terribles desgracias."- Las amapolas del emperador.

That,' Peregrine said, 'is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

I don't want to say why I should be picked over somebody. I just want to say why I should be picked for any team.

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

My mentality has always been focused around the mindset that you have to earn everything. So even if you get told that you're going to play, I take that with a pinch of salt and respect all the comments, but for me, I have to earn my place.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Consistency in selection is great but it's a whole lot easier if you've got players who warrant that consistency through their performances.

How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice. 'I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.

What something is worth isn't always tied to money.

The saving of a life is equal in merit to the saving of the world. So it is said, he who saves one life saves a world. Yet if this was so, then what exactly was meant by world? Were there worlds of different size and merit? Or was the world of one soul as capacious as the world that contained all of creation—infinite, even? Was Ester's world, peopled by her parents and her brother, equal to all the others God had created?

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Class is inherited. Calibre is earned.

You can have all the money in the world, but if you're not a good candidate, it doesn't matter.

There's a lot of individual credit and blame in a capitalist society.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.