Quotes About Merit

The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward mobility, and the promise that 'merit' correlates with talents and deserts.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Labor is the true standard of value.

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

You always want your work to be seen as long as it's good.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.