Quotes About Merit

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.

Love is deserved, not desired.

A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste.

It's almost never the kind of person you are but the kind of job you do decides how much you get paid.

The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit—general knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

Something for nothing is not to be found on earth.

The men who have not done their duty in this world never can be equal to those who have done their duty more or less well. If

For hence it is that the righteousness of Christ is imputed to him by God, by whose merit apprehended by faith he is absolved from his sins and obtains a right to life" (1992, 16.9). Faith is thus "the instrumental cause of our justification" (1992, 16.7) and by implication of our union with Christ. Hence, believers have "immediate and absolute union" with Christ (1992, 18.25).

I think that success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlation with merit, and in all fields of life there have been many people of great merit who did not succeed – Popper

If my life be not my own, it were criminal for me to put it in danger, as well as to dispose of it; nor could one man deserve the appellation of hero, whom glory or friendship transports into the greatest dangers, and another merit the reproach of wretch or misereant who puts a period to his life, from the same or like motives.

Not to mention that a crown is too high a reward ever to be given to merit alone, and will always induce the candidates to employ force, or money, or intrigue, to procure the votes of the electors: so that such an election will give no better chance for superior merit in the prince, than if the state had trusted to birth alone for determining the sovereign.

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.