Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title. — Eric Ries
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth… — Benjamin Tucker
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit. — Jalen Rose
One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but… — Ravi Zacharias
My company believes in hiring people based on merit. — Azim Premji
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power… — John Ralston Saul
When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of… — David Jeremiah
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer… — Jean-Henri Fabre
There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of… — Haile Selassie
Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the… — Jorma Ollila
We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old… — Gerhard
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps… — Allan Massie
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… — Mike Medavoy
We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation — Lowell L. Bennion
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… — David Eugene Smith
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most… — Bernd Heinrich
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby
Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant… — Keith K. Hilbig
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the… — Sue Kelly
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most… — Isaac D'Israeli
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design,… — Nan Fairbrother
When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge… — Yvon Chouinard
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… — Al Yankovic

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