Merit Recognition Quotes

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

You need to tell people where they stand. If someone's done a good job, you should tell them they've done damn well. But if they haven't, you should take the same attitude.

I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.

Because you cannot keep real talent hidden for long.

I am a living example of Modi's capacity to recognise talent and to reason.

Whether a player has played one match or a hundred, we should give him respect for what he has achieved and leave it at that.

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.

In society and in football in Spain, achievements are not always appreciated or valued.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I haven't got the credit I deserved sometimes, and some of it's my fault.

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

Nearly every industry in America, from carbon trading to bricklaying, hosts its own back-slapping awards night.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

There are a lot of people who don't believe I deserve to be recognized as one of the top-10 best and I don't necessarily disagree with them.

I want to be recognized for my performance as an athlete and not because of who I am.

Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.