Meritorious Service Award

Famous quotes containing the words meritorious, service and/or award:

“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)