Quotes About Merit

Our works are made worthy of eternity by virtue of the mercy in him, rather than on the basis of the merit in them.

Divine blessing flows from God's mercy rather than from our merit.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.

A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned.

Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.

One of the greatest qualities which have made the English a great people is their eminently sane, reasonable, fairminded inability to conceive that any viewpoint save their own can possibly have the slightest merit.