Deserving Merit Quotes & Sayings

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark ... — Rodney Dangerfield

Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He wondered if this was the bulldozers' graveyard, where the bulldozers went to die. — Neil Gaiman

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving. — George Washington

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear. — Erich Fromm

When I signed up for Google Plus, it recommended 500 people for me to invite. You know, and once I invited those 500 people I got another 500 people. So it has a huge install base that it can start from. — Jennifer Lee

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce. — Lord Chesterfield

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. — Adrienne Clarkson

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it. — William Law

Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love. — Peace Gypsy

Repentance, as a natural feeling, is a common duty deserving no great praise: indeed, it is so generally mingled with a selfish fear of punishment, that the kindliest estimate makes but little of it. Had not Jesus interposed and wrought out a wealth of merit, our tears of repentance would have been so much water spilled upon the ground. Jesus is exalted on high, that through the virtue of His intercession repentance may have a place before God. In this respect He gives us repentance, because He puts repentance into a position of acceptance, which otherwise it could never have occupied. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort. — Sonja Lyubomirsky

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you. — Jon Stewart

He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it - nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. — Charles Dickens

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them
"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is. — Chaim Potok

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them. — Miguel De Icaza

Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it. — Ada Leverson