Quotes About Merit

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

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If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.

Emperor Wu asked Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism in China, how much merit he had earned by building temples all over the country. Bodhidharma said, "None whatsoever." But if you wash one dish in mindfulness, if you build one small temple while dwelling deeply in the present moment — not wanting to be anywhere else, not caring about fame or recognition — the merit from that act will be boundless, and you will feel very happy.

For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.

I think the only thing you should be judged on is your performance in whatever field you happen to be in.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

Ronnie Barker was a man whom I thought more deserving of a knighthood than me.

it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

Love is how you earn your wings.

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Our laws', said Pericles, 'afford equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, but we do not ignore the claims of excellence. When a citizen distinguishes himself, then he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as a reward for merit; and poverty is not a bar …'These

I have actually five honorary degrees.

It is the marvel of the work of the Holy Spirit that those who really respond to the proclamation of reconciliation claim no merit whatsoever for that response, but rather find the essence of their joy in God, who reconciled us unto himself.

The history of salvation does away with any personal glory ... in Christ, we have the exclusion of all human merit.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right.

Not worth his salt.

The question at the core of bureaucracy is, "How do we get human beings to better serve the organization?" The question at the heart of humanocracy is, "What sort of organization elicits and merits the best that human beings can give?

Those who are good will qualify themselves.

Given special powers, anyone can do anything. It takes away all the merit of achievement. It's like King Arthur's magic sword. As long as he wielded it, no one could defeat him. Well, that means that the virtue was in the sword, not in him. Even I could be a great knight with a sword like that. I'd be much more impressed by Arthur if he'd fought his battles with an ordinary sword, and still won them.

the humility appropriate for a fellow sinner, express the courage and authority of one confident of the Savior's provision, exude the joy of salvation by faith alone, reflect the love that claims their souls, and perform their service without any claim of personal merit.14 Preaching