Merit Quotes
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He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.
Lloyd Doggett -
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Homer
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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.
Baltasar Gracian -
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?
David Paden Marchand AFI -
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.
Emily Bronte -
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord Byron -
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise Pascal -
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
William James
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
Abraham Lincoln -
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
Ajahn Chah -
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.
Ben Affleck -
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
William Nicholson
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What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne -
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.
William Penn -
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.
Jane Austen -
We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
Nolan Bushnell -
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.
Bernard Lown -
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
Victor Hugo
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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.
George Sarton -
...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
Anders Chydenius -
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.
William Law -
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel