Quotes About Merit

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

she had the inestimable merit of being interesting.

Finally, Calvin's exposition of the Psalter shows that predestination is not so much a distinction between merit and grace as one between man and God, human honor and God's honor.

All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others.

Los hombres que están en el Poder tienen tanta necesidad de creer en el mérito reconocido, en el talento descarado, como en el sabio hay puerilidad en creer en las recompensas humanas.

After the snows of Siberia, a man may well find merit in these black eyes of mine, which, as you used to say, ripened any fruit that I gazed upon.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.

Labor is the true standard of value.

The money is as good as you are.

Economics doesn't reward nice. It rewards smart.

Just because you don't understand or agree with something doesn't mean that it lacks merit.

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

Le génie n'est qu'un prêt: il faut le mériter par de grandes souffrances, par des épreuves modestement, fermement traversées; on finit par entendre des voix et l'on écrit sous la dictée.

Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.

But if this prosperity couldn't be attributed to their own personal merit, then by the same token the refugees weren't to blame for their reduced circumstances. Things might have turned out the other way around. For a moment, this thought opens its jaws wide, displaying its frightening teeth.

It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

My work speaks for itself.

How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.