Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby Copy Share Image
“I'll have you in my bed again, Sentinel. And at my side. That is a promise.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
