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Quotes about Merit

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
— Andrew Carnegie
Unworthy" does not mean "undeserving", for we are all undeserving! It means "incapable of receiving.
— Peter Kreeft
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
— Joseph Heller
God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.
— Philip Yancey
None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.
— Philip Yancey
Every institution, it seems, runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way.
— Philip Yancey
The difference is one of motivation: legalism is self-centered; discipline is God-centered. The legalistic heart says, "I will do this thing to gain merit with God." The disciplined heart says, "I will do this thing because I love God and want to please Him.
— Kent Hughes
No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.
— Paul Washer
There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.
— John Bunyan
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
— Bill Hybels
Summing up, we can see that the progressive pitches about greed, selfishness, and inequality are basically diversions. They seek to deflect us away from the core issue, which is that the creators of the wealth are the ones who deserve the wealth they have created. To put it in primitive terms, the farmer who grew the crops gets to keep the crops and the hunters who killed the deer get to eat the deer.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Lafayette learned from Catherine: he would respect all people on merit and champion the oppressed.
— Donald Miller