Merit Quotes
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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.
Ben Affleck
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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
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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.
E. Lockhart
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.
Denis Fonvizin
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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?
David Paden Marchand
AFI
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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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
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Jane Austen
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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.
William Penn
