U.S. is a merit-based society... There is no glass ceiling if you have good performance track record and leadership skills. — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Merit: “I am yours until you ban bacon, or otherwise as long as I can put up with you.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“There is more in the atonement by way of merit, than there is in all human sin by way of demerit.” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.” — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“My first few weeks as a vampire had been inordinately busy. Like The Young and the Restless, but with slightly dead people.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“And that’s why we’re sending Boobs McGee.” I slowly swiveled my head to glare at Catcher. “Seriously. You’re, what, twelve now?” ***… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even… — Geeta Iyengar Copy Share Image
the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man… — Ellin Devis Copy Share Image
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the… — Camillo Golgi Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only. — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents. — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
A person who shakes a leg to 'Zor ka jhatka' at a disc doesn't care about its picturization in the film. He… — Shaan Copy Share Image
“It is fit that the fortune should be on his side, for I think the merit will be all on hers.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image