Merit Quotes
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work
The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.