Quotes About Merit

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Oh, silly people at court care, because they're the sort of fools who believe that one's ancestors are much more important than one's personal merit. Prove you're the great-great-great granddaughter of some medieval king's illegitimate whelp, as she did, and they'll fawn all over you and give you money, entry into the right houses, introductions to the right people…

Why not? If they have merit." Dr. Gaul tossed the stack of questionnaires onto the table. "What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.

Ni viviendo cien vidas llegarías a merecerte a ese chico. Lo sabes, ¿no?

Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate.

If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

The was something very satisfying about a smile that had to be earned.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

There are endless millions of approaches to every problem, but there is only one best approach. Find this one best approach and your problem is easily solved. No matter how much merit your goods may have, there are millions of wrong ways in which to offer them. Your imagination will assist you in finding the right way.

Ideas with much less merit have been the seedlings from which great fortunes have grown.

It is not the clock that strikes the loudest that keeps the best time. The expensive chronometer works steadily along doing its work well and faithfully. It does not attract as much attention as the gilt clock with its sweet chimes, but men who know things are aware that the chronometer has the more real merit. Have the chronometer for your ideal and not the fancy clock, for true merit will certainly receive due reward.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

If the student is smart, the teacher takes the credit.

They will act as if they deserved the money.

yet he gets little or no credit for it.

Have you ever wondered why so many of these straight-A students end up going nowhere in life while someone who lagged behind is now getting the shekels, buying the diamonds

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

No hay excusa para la maldad; pero el que es malo, si lo sabe, tiene algún mérito; el vicio más irreparable es el de hacer el mal por tontería.