Quotes About Merit

certification of what constitutes "merit" and "quality." Nevertheless, and even granting the digital divide, there is a generational shift in the kinds of learning happening by those both living above the poverty

secondary or insufficiently individualistic to warrant merit.

Disse che mi avrebbe preso nove. In teoria la soluzione in un tempo così breve avrebbe meritato il massimo, aggiunse, però se mi avesse messo dieci avrebbe dato per implicito che non c'era nulla da migliorare e avrebbe contribuito a farmi sprecare il mio talento.

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

Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but that's clearly not the case. Some teachers are much more effective than others in helping kids learn, yet school policies and pay scales do little to recognize or reward their efforts.

for its very excellent and very

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap. You

The result of this conversation was a sudden determination to produce a work which, if it had no other merit, might present truer pictures of the ocean and ships than any that are to be found in the Pirate.

I'm definitely underrated. By far.

Mediocrity is underrated.

I know I'm underrated.

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college students, it just redistributes them to schools for which they are actually qualified, rather than catapulting them into academic environments where they will inevitably struggle.

I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued - merit.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

It is good to know that every single title/rank you hold is earned in a high cost of hard work, not some random self given title/rank.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

Some of my best men are women!