Quotes About Merit

When it comes to some things you have to look at the quality, and not the quantity.

We may not always get what we desire but we shall always get what we deserve.

Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest.

Many people dont deserve what they get and many people dont get what they deserve.

You have not, perhaps, any personal merit; so few of us have! But for a time at least you have youth, and that is always a charm. Besides, sir, the greatest folly of all is to laugh at or to condemn in others what one does not happen oneself to feel. I love the night, and you tell me that you are afraid of it.

that their merit resides in the impression that they make on their readers. It is a synthetic Venus, of which we have but one truncated limb if we confine ourselves to the thought of the author, for it is realised in its completeness only in the minds of his readers. In them it finds its fulfilment. And as a crowd, even a select crowd, is not an artist, this final seal of approval which it sets upon the article must always retain a certain element of vulgarity.

the only touchstone of merit seeming to me to be the way someone could be useful in connection with the one thing that seemed important—my love. Then, perhaps out of duplicity, or in a genuine surge of affection inspired by gratitude, by self-interest, and by all the physical features of Mme de Guermantes that nature had replicated in her nephew, I went on to add:

I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality as an duplicate. Live life of your own and on your own value and merit.

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.

At least they were quiet, mostly because Moon told them if anybody woke Merit, he would personally beat them into unconsciousness.

For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.

God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.