Appreciate Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

— Eric Ries

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

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

— Tacitus

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

— Samuel Johnson

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

— Jules Verne

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

— St. Catherine of Siena

From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

— Tenzin Palmo

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

— Anonymous

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

— Jorge Luis Borges