The more merit, the less affection.

Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.

— Huston Smith

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

— Baltasar Gracian

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you…

— Shakira

There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of…

— Dalai Lama

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

— William Shakespeare

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

“It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.”

— Kahlil Gibran

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need…

— Lorii Myers

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

— Condoleezza Rice

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…

— Thomas Carlyle

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right…

— James Gunn

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

— Mason Cooley

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve…

— William Shakespeare