Merit Quotes · Page 21

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits…

— Maimonides

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

— Heloise

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote…

— Fred Upton

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

— Park Geun-hye

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their…

— Lord Chesterfield

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and…

— Julia Gillard

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson

“He was a tall, energetic, self-made man who had taught himself accountancy and banking through correspondence courses and had risen to his…

— Kuan Yew Lee

The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God,…

— Pope Pius IX

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets…

— James Buchan

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin…

— Ambrose Bierce

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for…

— John Locke

I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their…

— Patti Smith

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of…

— David Stove

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man…

— Sun Tzu

It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the…

— Allan Massie

Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could…

— Saddam Hussein

My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to…

— Edgar Degas

The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do…

— Louis Pasteur

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and…

— Desiderius Erasmus

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of…

— Alexander Fleming

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings…

— Thomas S. Monson

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was…

— John le Carre

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits…

— William Hazlitt

“I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are…

— Thaddeus Golas

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about it or do…

— Nabil N Jamal

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think…

— Brian Eno

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the…

— Pat Roberts

The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

— Emily Dickinson

Genderqueer actors should not have to abandon their identities to receive acknowledgement about their merit and their talents.

— E. R. Fightmaster

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

— Keir Starmer

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they…

— Blaise Pascal

“There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.”

— John Bunyan

If you keep doubting every issue you come across in life, you will never consider any issue based on its merits.

— Kemmy Nola

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from…

— Liz Garbus

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

— John Dryden