Quotes About Merit

I think that our family is very fortunate, very lucky, that on their own merit, from themselves, using whatever means necessary, singing Qawwali, in all corners and areas, in every place, singing in villages, they've promoted it.

I was a pretty unsavvy applicant, and I am grateful that the dean of admissions at Princeton chose to take a chance on a girl from an average public high school in southern Virginia.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

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

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of (Ignatius de) Loyola.

Triumphant vulgarity rules the world (it is said) because the democratic numbers and the market forces always win. Once you have markets, cultural democracy and freedom of opinion, questions about merit and meaning will always be settled by majorities and money. Bot majorities and money have no real authority on questions of value.

There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the strength of his feelings about the matter, and since he always felt uncontrollably passionate about everything, then clearly he was always right. This irrational claptrap, coming as it did from a swarthy, excitable, plump Celtic demi-dwarf, struck me not just as thoroughly impertinent but also as a noisy and ignorant attempt to undermine the most basic principles of the Enlightenment.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

All of my remaining days, I will feel tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct and for what I have done. I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and from those I have wronged or caused to suffer.

How am I supposed to prove myself worthy if you don't offer the opportunity?

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

A good person only is worthy of a high position and can become the king of a nation.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.