Merit Quotes
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Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
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...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons for rejection. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.
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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.
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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.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
