Quotes About Merit

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.

When I first got two stars, I didn't think I deserved it. Now I have three I think I am worthy.

Just like any other job, you want a raise you've got to put in the work and you've got to show that you're deserving and what you bring to the table and all kinds of other stuff to show that you're worthy of so and so pay scale.

But it's hard for people to give you a chance until you prove to them that you're worthy.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.

received the cross of the Legion of Honour.

Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk that way when you used to come to my house in Jeanne-d'Arc street. Ah! it is a shame! You have not done as much, with your cross of honor! I deserve more merit than you, do you understand, more than you, for I have killed more Prussians than you!

U.S. is a merit-based society... There is no glass ceiling if you have good performance track record and leadership skills.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

and you will become friendly with others. This is the merit of Zen practice. But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort. This is how we practice Zen.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

That was the real triumph of the revolution, Napoleon thought with a slight nod. A man might rise as high as any on the basis of merit alone, and not because of some accident of birth. That was why France would win, in the end. For what nation could hope to stand against a nation of men free to pursue their ambitions?

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.

The inequity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

You love only those who deserve it.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.