Merit Quotes
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Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
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These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.
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But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
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What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
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...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
