Merit Quotes

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.

By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vérité filmmaking to more archival."

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.