Quotes about Merit
That we got what we deserved in life.
— Harold S. Kushner
It is important that the Church of London, which has now lost its ruler, should receive for its new bishop a man whose personal merit, attainments in learning, and prudence in managing public business shall not be unworthy of the dignity of that see.
— Thomas Becket
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
— Adrian Rogers
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
— Aesop
Your financial requirements or wants have nothing whatever to do with your WORTH. Your value is established entirely by your ability to render useful service or your capacity to induce others to render such service.
— Napoleon Hill
If your opinion is sound, and you forego it for the love of God and follow that of another, you will win great merit. I have often heard that it is safer to accept advice than to give it. It may even come about that each of two opinions is good; but to refuse to come to an agreement with others when reason or occasion demand it, is a sign of pride and obstinacy.
— Thomas a Kempis
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
— George Eliot
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is the marvel of the work of the Holy Spirit that those who really respond to the proclamation of reconciliation claim no merit whatsoever for that response, but rather find the essence of their joy in God, who reconciled us unto himself.
— GC Berkouwer
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
— Samuel Johnson