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Quotes About Merit

The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is that that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.
~ Mike Medavoy
I've been eager to make your acquaintance, Dr. Gibson. What an exceptional creature you are. The only woman admitted to the honors of this soiree on her own merit, rather than as some gentleman's accessory." "Accessory?" Garrett repeated, her brows lifting. "I hardly think the ladies present deserve to be described that way." "It is the role most women choose for themselves." "Only for lack of opportunity.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Anything conferred without commensurate effort is ultimately worthless.
~ Unknown
Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.
~ Unknown
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
~ Longfellow
In a doctrine so simple, consistency is no merit.
~ Lord Acton
History can only take things in the gross; But could we know them in detail, perchance In balancing the profit and the loss, War's merit it by no means might enhance, To waste so much gold for a little dross, As hath been done, mere conquest to advance. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
~ Lord Byron
Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
~ Jim Butcher
Deserve's got nothin'—
~ Jim Butcher
Sorte é isto. Merecer e ter.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it.
~ Habeeb Akande
A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Excellent is prasie worthy.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Always seek what you deserve & not what you desire your desire may be few but you deserve a lot.
~ Unknown
Well done, you deserved the success. Congratulations to you.
~ Unknown
Doing something prestigious does not equal being awesome.
~ Unknown
Appreciation is wonderful feeling, don't overlook it. Appreciation is acknowledgement of ones merit and his achievement.
~ Anil Sinha
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
In life, you get what you negotiated, not what you deserved.
~ Vikas Swarup
You will never get disappointed if you do not desire what you do not deserve.
~ Unknown
Such return awaits thy passion as thy passion merits.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
~ Voltaire
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
~ Voltaire
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire