Quotes About Merit

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That's one reason why we don't use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can merit the s-word, because there's a malignity that's innate in little kids sometimes, but you can't merit the a-word until you're old enough so that you ought to know better.

John makes no effort to reconcile systematically these sayings about divine predestination and moral responsibility. He sees no contradiction that faith is the free decision of a person's will and at the same time the gift of God's grace. This makes it clear that "the decision of faith is not a human meritorious achievement like the Jewish works of the Law, but simply the fitting answer, made possible by the grace of God, to the revelation given by Jesus."20

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Footnote: The real morality of actions—their merit or demerit, and even that of our own conduct, is completely unknown to us. Our estimates can relate only to their empirical character. How much is the result of the action of free will, how much is to be ascribed to nature and to blameless error, or to a happy constitution of temperament (merito fortunae), no one can discover, nor, for this reason, determine with perfect justice.]

But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passions and it goes deep and envenoms the soul. It must be resisted with every honest cunning and with the deliberate thinking of generous thoughts, however abstract and empty these may seem in comparison with that wicked strength... There is no merit, Jessica, in a faithfulness which is poison to you and captivity to him.

I was perhaps moreover a little the dupe of that illusion of lovers that the beloved object must , somehow, respond, that an extremity of love not only merits but compels some return.

You can't maintain discipline that way." Mallow said icily, "I can. There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

Mantener la disciplina en circunstancias ideales no tiene ningún mérito.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances.

The worst dog gets the best bone. Why is it?

El funcionario público debe comprender desde su primer día en la oficina que cualquier amago de iniciativa será el fin de su carrera, porque no está allí para hacer mérito, sino para alcanzar dignamente su nivel de incompetencia.

The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.