Top 160 Merit Quotes

The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it’s about, ‘Does that person merit that salary?’ The fact is that that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years – only the new media made it viable.

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

‘Upstream Color’ in particular, it’s got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it’ll be judged, and it’ll either live or it won’t by its own merit, and history will decide whether it’s relevant however long into the future. I think that’s more than enough to hope for.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody – and that grace is the opposite of merit – human labour, education or human wisdom.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.

U.N. employees, including senior leadership, should be selected based on merit and competence while continuing endeavors to achieve gender parity and geographical balance.

Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It’s fine, it’s your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child’s or your friend’s career.

Win on your merit, not your skin color.

I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

I’ve always felt all the jobs I’ve ever got are on merit.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there’s a pretty good likelihood their case – no matter what its merit – will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that – the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free ‘on merit.’

So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it’s no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won’t improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that’s led parents, students and educators to shout ‘Enough!’ all across the country.

I think American life would be better without Twitter, and I think we’d have a better country if the president was not on Twitter. What people say in a bar or a pub doesn’t necessarily merit being memorialised.

Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren’t ‘real’ writers and, so, don’t merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN’s attention.

You don’t need sex and controversy when your film has merit.

Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.

If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined ‘progress.’

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I don’t give any merit to criticism. ‘Country Girls (Shake it for Me),’ I can see where people view that as sexist, but I just view that as having fun.

I’m not sure I’d be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it’s a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.

Sometimes a team loses a Copa tie and suddenly the competition is downplayed. It’s not a good excuse to say that the Copa has no merit.

You wouldn’t go to a hospital, you wouldn’t go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

I always love to look at something that I couldn’t make, because I feel it’s enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, ‘Wow!’ It’s a skill that I don’t have, but I can understand the merit of it.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn’t work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment’s notion of merit – good breeding, a posh school, and so on.

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

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.

Whether you like Mourinho’s style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they’re threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I’m going to tell you it has no merit.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived – thru habit and not thru merit.

I’m a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Mr. Lincoln’s elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I don’t want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and have those be judged on their merit alone.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

I judge people based on merit, on personality.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.

I can only compare myself to the players I was playing against. To say I won the Order of Merit playing only seven events out of 17 was to me a big achievement.

Legal immigration should emphasize merit and meeting the needs of the U.S., including specific unmet workforce needs.