Quotes About Merit

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.

You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.

Maybe, these ideas are pointing to something mystical and true. And perhaps i am judging hte idea, not by its merit, but by the fashionable or unfashionable delivery of the message.

A mark of a competent adult is their ability to accept feedback. The mark of a child is their expectation of praise without merit.

Lafayette learned from Catherine: he would respect all people on merit and champion the oppressed.

No one can take away the opportunity that you deserve.

searches out what is beyond pleasure, is outside process. Not the passion so much as what the fervor can be an ingress to. Poetry fishes us to find a world part by part, as the photograph interrupts the flux to give us time to see each thing separate and enough. The poem chooses part of our endless flowing forward to know its merit with attention.

In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.

Any good reward well deserved is well preserved.

But it wasn't even close to perfect if you can't trust it to stand up on its own merit. Not if you have to try and control it and play games to try and shape it to your will. This doesn't save it, it destroys it. And it certainly does not protect or save you.

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

I know not why we should delay our tokens of respect to those who merit them, until the heart that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove our repentance that we neglected it when with us.

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He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. HENRY MITCHELL

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.