Merit Quotes · Page 15

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Of course I have a sly plan. I am a Merit, after all.”

— Chloe Neill

“If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.”

— Swami Vivekananda

From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

— Tenzin Palmo

“Aw, sad face. I came up with that totally off the cuff. No props for off the cuff?”

— Chloe Neill

The greatest virtue that one should try to cultivate is the habit of self-reliance.

— Senora Roy

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

— Roger Ebert

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

— Jean Toomer

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be…

— Steve Camp

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

— Richard Barnet

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

— William Shakespeare

Promotions create awareness, but if there is no merit to the film, what will promotions do anyway?

— Tabu

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the…

— Samuel Johnson

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

— Howard Thurman

My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But…

— Vivek Wadhwa

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and…

— Arthur Helps

And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would…

— Hugh Nibley

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle…

— Chris Matthews

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the…

— Andre Breton

“Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma; true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or…

— Dada Bhagwan

Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that,…

— William Robertson Smith

Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident…

— Darrel Ray

That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When…

— Roxane Gay

Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation…

— Mitchell Baker

I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the…

— James A. Michener

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Jeff opened blue eyes, grinned at me. “If you’re feeling left out . . .” I almost threw out an instinctive no,…

— Chloe Neill

There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to…

— Lajos Kossuth

We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And…

— Roger Caras

I don't have an inflated opinion of how much artistic merit the poems I do have.

— Tim Key

“what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.”

— Martin Luther

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

— Alexander Pope

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;…

— Alexander Pope

“If Ambition be a Fault, ’tis only in those who have not a sufficient stock of Merit to support it ...”

— Eliza Haywood

...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.

— Albert Schweitzer

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

— Francis Bacon

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

— Hillary Clinton