Merit Quotes · Page 10

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

— Nicola Sturgeon

If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.

— James Cook

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

— Plutarch

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

— Abraham Lincoln

You don't always get what you wish for, but you get what you work for.

— Anonymous

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

— Sax Rohmer

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a…

— Paul Gambaccini

In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

— Martha Nussbaum

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself…

— Donald Cargill

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes…

— Thomas Carlyle

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall…

— Laozi

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

— Charles Spurgeon

Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's…

— Mary Pope Osborne

What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply…

— Eric Hoffer

The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate…

— Brian Koppelman

We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former…

— Richard Blumenthal

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit…

— Adam Clarke

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's…

— Glenn Greenwald

Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee;…

— Francis Quarles

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not…

— David Cannadine

I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with…

— Molly Ivins

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take…

— David Bennun

And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of…

— Elbridge Gerry

Legal immigration is good for America, if it's controlled and structured via the legal process, of course. But the problem is the…

— Marco Rubio

It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is…

— Samir Nasri

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is…

— Lewis Fry Richardson

Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with…

— Edward Jenks

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

— William Law

I think any position in any international organization should be merit-based.

— Tedros Adhanom

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

— Genghis Khan

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If You Wish Your Merit To Be Known, Acknowledge That Of Other People...

— Pacifiersucker

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

— Horace