George Washington Quotes

Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

George Washington

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• Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Team
  • Here
  • Members

• Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Life is

• The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • True
  • Christian
  • Cutting

• Love, too, has to be learned.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Learned

• You cannot treat with all the world at once.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Treat

• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Problem
  • Advice
  • Judgment

• Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

  

  William Blake
  • Way
  • Beauty
  • Exuberance

• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Brown

• Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

  

  Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Singing
  • Journey
  • Destination

• People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Lose
  • Prove
  • Wars

• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Fame
  • Property
  • Accident

• Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Leader
  • Century
  • Middle

• It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

  

  Errol Morris
  • Fame
  • Connected
  • Merit

• As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

  

  Daisy Whitney
  • Time
  • Words
  • Alone

• Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

  

  George Washington
  • Merit
  • Unrewarded