Top 100 No Merit Quotes
#1. But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.
Jalen Rose
#4. An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
Ernest Rutherford
#5. If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.
Kerry Greenwood
#6. 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.
James Madison
#7. There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.
Isaac Asimov
#8. You have no merit of your own to plead why He should pardon you, but plead His written promises and He will perform them. Are
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#9. Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renunciation of any confidence in our own righteousness and a relying entirely on the perfect righteousness and death of Christ.
Jerry Bridges
#10. There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.
Aaron Hill
#11. We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior.
R.C. Sproul
#12. It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13. Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.
Peter Joseph
#14. 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.
Ilana Glazer
#15. When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.
Kevin O'Leary
#16. For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#17. At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
Kevin DeYoung
#18. But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte
#19. There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.
Sax Rohmer
#20. There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
Winston Churchill
#21. You can't maintain discipline that way." Mallow said icily, "I can. There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.
Isaac Asimov
#22. To yield readily
easily
to the persuasion of a friend is no merit ... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
Jane Austen
#23. The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.
James Balog
#24. Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#25. To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
#26. Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of his beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of Grace
Brennan Manning
#28. Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad.
C.S. Lewis
#29. I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else
Romain Gary
#30. Well, then, with Miss Temple you are good?"
"Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides me. There is no merit in such goodness.
Charlotte Bronte
#31. Separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed - through no merit of his own - by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.
James Carroll
#32. If you show yourself, you will not be seen. If you affirm yourself, you will not shine. If you boast, you will have no merit. If you promote yourself, you will have no success.
Lao-Tzu
#33. An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
Mark Twain
#34. A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
Tahir Shah
#35. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
Hakim Ibn Hizam
#36. 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
#37. In peace alone reason was heard and merit distinguished; but in the rage of war the blind steel spared the innocent no more than the guilty.
Tacitus
#39. Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.
Paula Cohen
#40. Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"
He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right?
Lisa Renee Jones
#41. Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
E.B. White
#42. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.
Sun Tzu
#43. There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.
M.M. Kaye
#44. All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#45. We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
Nicolas Malebranche
#46. But if my acts are good, sincerely intended, Then no matter where I turn my steps, The merit gained will honor me With its resulting benefits.
Santideva
#47. In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration ... The words used, however, should be old ones.
Fujiwara No Teika
#48. 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!
Steve Camp
#49. I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
Justin Trudeau
#50. Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts ... Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.
Bill Hicks
#51. True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#52. 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
#53. Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
Matthew Simpson
#54. To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.
James Joyce
#55. Affirmative action benefits NO ONE. It discriminates against Asian American and White students, while promoting negative stereotypes about the competency of African American students -- that they only got in because of their race, not merit.
Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam
#56. If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
Isaac D'Israeli
#57. It is valour which defines a kshatriya, a kshatriya does not define valour. You are known by the deeds done; merit has no pedigree.
Kavita Kane
#58. Merit is no qualification for freedom. [...] Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.
Thomas Edward Lawrence
#59. There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#60. An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.
Gough Whitlam
#61. It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace
#63. The result of this conversation was a sudden determination to produce a work which, if it had no other merit, might present truer pictures of the ocean and ships than any that are to be found in the Pirate.
James Fenimore Cooper
#64. How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice.
'I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.
Rachel Hartman
#65. It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.
W. Somerset Maugham
#66. Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.
Dennis Hastert
#67. There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.
Jacques Rigaut
#69. Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
James Russell Lowell
#70. If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
Edmund Waller
#71. Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.
Guru Nanak
#72. There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black
#73. But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults are impardonable, and merit the sharpest arrows of criticism.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#74. Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.
Jonathan Barnes
#75. Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...
Ada Leverson
#76. The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
Carl Sagan
#77. I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Sigmund Freud
#78. Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale ... Love loves; this is its nature.
Howard Thurman
#79. 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.
Thomas Gray
#80. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
Milarepa
#81. The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
Calvin Coolidge
#82. I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.
Jung Chang
#83. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
Patrick Ness
#84. 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.
W. Somerset Maugham
#85. No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#86. No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#87. As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.
John Flavel
#89. It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. 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.
Laozi
#91. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
Thomas Carlyle
#92. But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it for yourself, but make yourself a member of your own audience. There is no other way to evaluate your own progress.
Wendy Pini
#93. No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.
Max Stirner
#94. It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.
John Quincy Adams
#95. In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen
#96. Lydia is an excellent student! She's a clever girl, only these teachers are such sticklers for having all papers and tests completed, and they leave no room for judging her by her own merit.
Laura Briggs
#97. The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#98. Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.
Joe Dempsie
#99. We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
James F. Cooper
