Quotes About Merit

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

I've found that guys who inherit like that often have a chip on their shoulder. The man brags too much about how successful he is. Somebody who'd earned it probably wouldn't feel the need. You don't see Warren Buffett telling everybody how brilliant he is at business. His actions speak for him.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. Thriftless gives, not from a beneficent pleasure in giving, but from a lazy delight in spending. He would not deny himself one enjoyment; not his opera-stall, not his horse, not his dinner, not even the pleasure of giving Lazarus the five pounds.

Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

Use them after your own honour and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit in your bounty. - Hamlet to Polonius

Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light: Such comfort as do lusty young men feel When well-apparell'd April on the heel Of limping winter treads, even such delight Among fresh female buds shall you this night Inherit at my house; hear all, all see, And like her most whose merit most shall be:

My Lord, I will use them according to their desert. HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.

In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.

Promotion should always go by merit, not by age, for services and not for service.

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.

The notion that egalitarian purposes could be served by the "restoration" of upward mobility betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding. High rates of mobility are by no means inconsistent with a system of stratification that concentrates power and privilege in a ruling elite. Indeed, the circulation of elites strengthens the principle of hierarchy, furnishing elites with fresh talent and legitimating their ascendancy as a function of merit rather than birth.

il mio merito non è di essere totalmente inefficiente ma di aver voluto esserlo

Being nominated is more than just an accomplishment. Everyone sees your worth.

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.