Quotes About Merit

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.