Merit Quotes
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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
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Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
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Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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The merit of the music should be based on music, not the way people look.
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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
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For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
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A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
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I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.
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The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
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I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
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Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
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How vain, without the merit, is the name.
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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
