Quotes About Merit

for, by whatever means you get into the polite circle, when you are once there, it is sufficient merit for you that you are there.

and with this reminder other things came to her -- how strange it was that, with all allowance for their merit, it should befall some people to be so inordinantly valued, quoted, as they said in the stock-market, so high, and how still stranger, perhaps, that there should be cases in which, for some reason, one didn't mind the so frequently marked absence in them of the purpose really to represent their price.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.

To me, a great story well told is a great story well told, and just because the protagonist is a young adult doesn't mean that story has less merit or worth than if the protagonist is a full-grown adult.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.

I just want to be treated fairly for my performance.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider our merit or our failure.

El amor, por definición, es un regalo no merecido; ser amado sin mérito es incluso la prueba de un amor verdadero.

Aquello que no ha sido elegido por nosotros no podemos considerarlo ni como un mérito ni como un fracaso.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.

Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve.