MERIT QUOTES III

quotations about merit

The principle of merit is generally viewed as a neutral and fair standard whereby people may be measured against each other and it is unfair, in terms of this standard which is beneficial to society, to prefer the less qualified.

JOHAN RABE

Equality, Affirmative Action and Justice


Merit is something due a person for a performance. If it is not received, an injustice is committed.

R. C. SPROUL

The R. C. Sproul Collection


Charms always strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

ALEXANDER POPE

A Concordance to the Poems of Alexander Pope

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The force of his own merit makes his way.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VIII

Tags: William Shakespeare


It is clear that merit is rooted in God and is bestowed on the believer through the grace of Christ.

DENNIS E. TAMBURELLO

Union With Christ


If you wish that your own merit should be recognized, recognize the merit of others.

G. P. MORRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Meritocracies are necessary if you want to get anything done. In many dysfunctional workplaces, workers themselves will set up what I call a shadow meritocracy of the business. Shadow meritocracies are high-functioning but unacknowledged work groups that arise in response to a failing worker (who's often in a key position or in management), in reaction to an unjust hierarchy, or in reaction to a rigid bureaucratic structure that can't respond quickly to change. I don't use the word shadow to suggest that there's something shady going on; I use it because these underground meritocracies can't be seen in the light of day. They'r not in the organizational chart, there are no job titles for their members, and you can't even identify them by the relative size of their members' offices or paychecks. You can only see them out of the corner of your eye--in nuances, undercurrents, interactions, whispered communications, and workflow.

KARLA MCLAREN

The Art of Empathy


The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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Merit does not consist in extensiveness of knowledge, but in doing the best according to the lights afforded.

ABRAHAM TUCKER

The Light of Nature Pursued


From the perspective of new members, the opportunities offered by meritocracies are inspiring. It is hugely attractive to members when anyone can join a community and further themselves and their reputation based upon great work and participation.

JONO BACON

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation


By merit raised
To that bad eminence.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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The spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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Meritocracies are rooted in a belief that performance can be measured quantitatively and fairly.

Janice A. Klein

True Change


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

ST. AUGUSTINE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

Les Caractères

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View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan,
And then deny him merit if you can.
Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone
Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

The Rosciad

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Merit is always relative to a particular end.

ROBERT K. FULLINWIDER

Leveling the Playing Field


Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it, but a man's exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought, but it will always be known.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

The Elements of a Polite Education

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If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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True merit often finds its gold not distinguished from base metal.

H. HOOKER

attributed, Day's Collacon