Merit Quotes
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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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It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.
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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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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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 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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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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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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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
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Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.
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An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
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I judge people based on merit, on personality.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous 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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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
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I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Merit rarely goes unrewarded.
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
