Merit Quotes
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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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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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An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
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...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
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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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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
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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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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
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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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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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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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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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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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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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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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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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.
