Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Merit Quotes
DutyMeritResponsibilityRights Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
American ValuesEqualityFairnessMeritSocial Mobility Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
CreativityEvaluationMeritPopularityTalent There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
DeceptionHypocrisyMeritSelf-Praise Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
CommitmentHonorMeritRespectSacrifice A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
AspirationCollaborationCommitmentMeritSuccess The country doesn't deserve anything less than success from us. Let us aim for success.
AmbitionDespicabilityExploitationMeritRuthlessness Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
AmbitionFortuneMeritModerationVirtue Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
BeautyInner StrengthLoveMerit Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
EducationMeritStudent AssessmentUniversity In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
FairnessJusticeMerit If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
HumilityIntegrityMerit It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
