Merit Quotes
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
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.
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.
Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
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.
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
