Merit Quotes

• When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Proud
  • Film
  • Audience

• It's hard to judge literary merit.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Hard
  • Judging
  • Merit

• Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Merit
  • Mortals
  • Mathematicians

• One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."

  

  David Eugene Smith
  • God
  • Truth
  • Science

• It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Reward
  • Merit

• The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Lies
  • Difficulty
  • Merit

• Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

  

  James Cook
  • Government
  • Talent
  • Achievement

• Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Circumstances
  • Merit
  • Ruled

• ... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

  

  Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Exercise
  • Industry
  • Arts

• When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Achieved
  • Merit

• If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Truth
  • Criticism
  • Merit

• Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some government office. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

  

  Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Success
  • Right
  • Merit

• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Fame
  • Property
  • Accident

• Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Men
  • Merit
  • Affairs

• Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Minutes

• Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Important
  • Enough
  • Stress

• The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Reality
  • Rewarded
  • Inhibitor

• A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

  

  Paul Scofield
  • Book
  • Value
  • Merit

• Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Equality
  • Distinction
  • Merit

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

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sincerity
  • Merit
  • Originality

• If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.

  

  James Cook
  • Organization
  • Results
  • Merit

• Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Leader
  • Century
  • Middle

• Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Language
  • Merit
  • Felicity

• It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

  

  Errol Morris
  • Fame
  • Connected
  • Merit

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