Top 100 Quotes About Merit
#1. The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.
Ibn Warraq
#2. We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
Horace
#3. Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
Sonia Sotomayor
#4. Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.
Richard Barnet
#5. 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.
Thomas S. Monson
#6. Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
#7. By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
Michael Eric Dyson
#8. Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet.
Lisa Renee Jones
#9. It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Petrarch
#10. I had to fight the urge to turn on him and level my sword at the shrunken black nugget of his heart.
Chloe Neill
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.
Rosa Montero
#14. Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.
Joseph Sobran
#15. Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise Pascal
#16. What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin
#17. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Fair enough" I gave him. "But you've got really nice shoes."
He blinked, then cast a dubious glance at his boots. "They were in my closet." I snorted and plucked at the sleeves of his jacket.
"Please you've been planning this outfit for a week.
Chloe Neill
#20. The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard Lown
#21. The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Scott Walker
#22. A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.
Nan Fairbrother
#23. Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
Lord Chesterfield
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
Charles Lamb
#28. Only your karma is important. Not your birth. Not your sex. And certainly not the colour of your throat. Our entire society is based on merit.
Amish Tripathi
#29. Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
W. Edwards Deming
#30. The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.
John Ralston Saul
#31. 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
#33. 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
#34. Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#35. A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
Vincent De Paul
#36. Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
Heloise
#37. The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
Dean Koontz
#38. I never start trouble, I assured him. It just usually seemed to pop up in my vicinity.
Chloe Neill
#39. A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#40. Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by
themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for
ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.
Eric Temple Bell
#41. The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.
William Monahan
#42. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
#43. In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.
Joel Klein
#44. You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
Epictetus
#45. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime ...
Laetitia Pilkington
#47. Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
Mark Kostabi
#48. Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
Thomas Piketty
#49. There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#50. Of course I have a sly plan. I am a Merit, after all.
Chloe Neill
#51. Would you put it past Darth Sullivan to figure out a way to haunt you postmortem? He's probably holding staff meetings in the afterworld. Offering up performance evaluations. Issuing dictates.
Chloe Neill
#52. BEDE. (ubi sup.) Repent, therefore, and believe; that is, renounce dead works; for of what use is believing without good works? The merit of good works does not, however, bring to faith, but faith begins, that good works may follow.
Thomas Aquinas
#53. In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Norm MacDonald
#54. A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much murder and anarchy are we prepared to endure for the sake of great achievements such as those of the Renaissance?
Bertrand Russell
#55. I was impressed that she looked so good on so little sleep. I'd have looked like a plague victim on a bad hair day.
Chloe Neill
#56. The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,
if you let it alone,
it will let you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
Francis Quarles
#58. An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
Ernest Rutherford
#59. If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#60. From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;
Lao-Tzu
#61. Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'Rourke
#62. The assholes took their toll." "Assholes often do." "That's a Billboard Top Forty song waiting to happen." "Sung to the tune of 'There'll Be Sad Songs,'" I suggested, then offered up a lyric. "'There'll be assholes, to make you cry.'" "'Assholes often dooo,'" Mallory sang.
Chloe Neill
#63. Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
Isaac D'Israeli
#64. An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they're creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can't make it better.
Johnny Rich
#66. People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.
James A. Champy
#67. What if we individually and collectively committed ourselves to the one thing that is needful - to replicating the loving sacrifice of Calvary to all people, at all times, in all places, regardless of their circumstances or merit? What if we just did the kingdom?
Gregory A. Boyd
#68. Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
Lord Chesterfield
#69. Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.
Jeff Kinney
#70. Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence?
Keith K. Hilbig
#72. If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.
Kerry Greenwood
#73. 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
#74. I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're not going to be cute in the same as kids are. And they shouldn't have to be cute to deserve and merit our attention and support.
John Donvan
#76. Merit karma is a credit amount and demerit karma is a debit amount [owe the amount to repay]. One is free to spend his accumulated amount wherever he wants.
Dada Bhagwan
#77. Alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
Elizabeth Inchbald
#78. Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.
Michael Josephson
#79. In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.
Edward Forbes
#80. The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
John Maynard Keynes
#81. We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
Charles Caleb Colton
#82. Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
Charles Churchill
#83. Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
Chanakya
#84. It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To the crowd, success wears almost the features of true mastery, and the greatest dupe of this counterfeit talent is History.
Victor Hugo
#85. Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom
and wherever deserved.
Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue,
Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless
And it isn't for you.
Louise Bogan
#86. Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
E.B. White
#87. When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.
Colley Cibber
#88. The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.
Jack Gilbert
#89. Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
Sam Storms
#90. Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.
Aristotle.
#92. The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.
Chanakya
#93. Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.
Baha'u'llah
#94. 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
#95. It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Sophocles
#96. They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
#97. It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
David Landes
#98. The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
Vilfredo Pareto
#99. It's not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.
Debbie Ford
#100. The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.
Jerry Bridges
