Quotes About Merit

If average students are increasingly getting the highest possible grade, how can employers and graduate schools identify the truly exceptional

Students who attended more selective colleges earned roughly the same as students of seemingly similar ability who attended less selective schools.

Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

To say that merit may be the same is not to say that productivity is the same. Nor can we logically or morally ignore the discrepancy in the relative urgency of those who want their shoes repaired versus those in need of brain surgery. In other words, it is not a question of simply weighing the interest of one income recipient versus the interest of another income recipient, while ignoring the vastly larger number of other people whose well-being depends on what these individuals produce. If

One of the reasons for paying people for their productivity, rather than their merits, is that productivity is far easier to determine than merit.

Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

That's all it might take. It wasn't death he feared—none of them feared that—but rather failure. But were not the Holy Warriors of Allah those who did the hardest things, and would not his blessings be in proportion to his merit? To be remembered. To be respected by his compatriots. To strike a blow for the cause—even if he managed to do that without recognition, he would go to Allah with peace in his heart.

Quakers never haggled, but set what they felt was a fair price for materials and labour. Each product had what was thought of as its own intrinsic merit, be it a carrot or a horseshoe or a quilt, and that did not change simply because many people needed a horseshoe.

It seems unfair to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one's birthday cake.

What's the point of merit that exists only to protect privilege?

On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns,

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

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

The work praises the man.

The laborer is worthy of his hire.

Of whom the world was not worthy.

Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.