Merit Quotes

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

The rich feel full of merit.

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.

From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.