Quotes About Merit

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

The money you earned is proof of the value you provided. The money you earned is proof of your worth having been recognized.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.

Accomplishments have no color.

El amor no conoce virtud ni mérito; ama, perdona y lo sufre todo, porque debe; nuestro juicio nada nos sirve para el amor; ni preferencias, ni defectos que descubrimos, provocan nuestra abnegación ni nos hacen retroceder asustados.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason, nor do the assets or blemishes that we discover tempt us to devotion or intimidate us. It is a sweet, mournful, mysterious power that drives us, and we stop thinking, feeling, wishing, we let ourselves drift along and never ask where we are drifting

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

Money isn't always the measure of how valuable you are to our society.

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'

I am not listening to him any more, but he must have strayed from his original subject because I suddenly hear: . . . to have, as you, the good fortune of writing a book. I have to say something. Good fortune, I say, dubiously. He mistakes the sense of my answer and rapidly corrects himself: Monsieur, I should have said: 'merit.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.