Quotes About Merit

Your net worth comes from your added value

Professionalism shouldn't be defined by a persons paycheck, role or title. It should be defined by a persons work ethic

There is no second place for doing first rate work.

You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.

The future should be something we deserve, not something which is merely reached at the rate of 60 minutes per hour.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.