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Quotes About Merit

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
~ William Shakespeare
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
~ Vincent de Paul
One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.
~ Ibn Majah
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
~ Aristotle
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
~ Chanakya
There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In the 1930s, he came up with an approach he calls "earned and deserved.""I believe, in order to be fair to all students, a teacher must give each individual student the treatment he earns and deserves. The most unfair thing to do is to treat all of them the same.
~ Swen Nater
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity
~ Sydney J. Harris
Such a catastrophe cannot threaten if the Nordic race will gather itself together in time, shake off the shackles of an inveterate altruism, discard the vain phantom of internationalism, and reassert the pride of race and the right of merit to rule. The
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
~ Tahir Shah
I think what is important is that my work speaks for itself.
~ Naveen Patnaik
I feel like my work speaks for itself.
~ Cub Swanson
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
~ Annie Proulx
My work has spoken for itself, and I've been offered work purely on merit.
~ Mandira Bedi
My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
~ Mason Cooley
Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.
~ Margaret Thatcher
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
~ Frank A. Clark
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
~ William Shakespeare
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
~ Meera
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
~ Chanakya
A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
~ John Galt
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
~ Blaise Pascal
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
~ Vilfredo Pareto