Deserving Merit Quotes

#1. You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

Richard Hammond

#2. To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.

Erich Fromm

#3. He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it - nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes.

Charles Dickens

#4. It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.

Kristin Kimball

#5. Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

#6. Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. As the saying goes
life's a thing that none but fools would keep.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. You've been hit extra hard with the stupid stick today.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. After all, suicide is contagious.

Suzanne Young

#10. Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people - particularly children - with respect to motivation?

Alfie Kohn

#11. 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.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

George Washington

#13. Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.

David Brainerd

#14. You couldn't sit in a room and wait for your muse to come and tickle you. Monday morning came, there was a dress rehearsal Thursday, you had to get that thing written. And it was grueling, but you learned to write.

Kevin Ashton

#15. 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.

William Law

#16. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

#17. Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my ... sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper.
Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis.
Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts.

Karen Marie Moning

#18. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Ada Leverson