Quotes About Merit

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.

You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Accomplishments have no color.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

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

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.