Quotes About Merit

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be love

He had a boyish enthusiasm for warfare and was delighted beyond words to be made a colonel in the Illinois National Guard without ever having done anything to merit it other than to exist as a rich person.

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

Men and boys will accept you more easily when you excel at something they value.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years it places a man within the select circle, known and respected, as another have merited in fifty years. It is a gain of thirty years without trouble.

Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.

Tutti erano ammaliati dall'idea del progresso e credevano che qualsiasi cosa nuova dovesse essere superiore a ciò che era vecchio. Come se il merito fosse una funzione della cronologia!

my boys, with only moderate incomes, when placed in the church, at the bar, or in the field, may exert their talents, make themselves friends, and raise their fortunes on the basis of merit.

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results.

academic award.

Set all your trust in God and fear not the language of the world; for the more despite, shame, and reproof that ye have in the world, the more is your merit in the sight of God. Patience is necessary unto you, for in that shall ye keep your soul.

There's nothing that people rebel more against, I told Jacques, than being forced to acknowledge the secret and immediate power their fellow human beings have over them. There's maybe nothing more common, routine. A savage power, as indifferent as a thunderbolt, where intellect, merit, beauty, language are nothing but animal electricity, a polarity that suddenly develops. Falling under the spell. Forever. We never talk about it—it's taboo.

No cualquiera se vuelve loco, esas cosas hay que merecerlas.

Was there ever an undertaking of more merit, of more hazard and more enterprising," he is supposed to have written soon after the collapse of his Pacific Fur Company

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

It is always better to earn things than to be given them.

Do we really deserve top billing?

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

What you call idiot points I call awesome dollars

Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.

Through no merit of ours, but by His mercy, we have been restored to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of His beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of grace.

Children contrast with the rich man simply because there is no question of their having yet been able to merit anything. Jesus' point is, there is nothing that any of us can do to inherit the kingdom. We must simply receive it like little children. And little children haven't done anything.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.