A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“You look ho-ot. Sure you don’t wanna drop this vampire business and join the Pack? We’ve got better . . . insurance.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although most friendships that exist do not merit the name, we can nevertheless make use of them in accordance with our needs,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
You know, as Secretary of State, I've been privileged to represent this great country, and I know its strengths, and I know… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of art is the misalignment of merit and the perception thereof. A hype is a classic example of positive (from… — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda)… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing. — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts. — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. " He leant forward and pressed his forehead… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose),… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued -… — Gianluigi Buffon Copy Share Image
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Trustworthiness is an innate virtue and you can't buy it with any price nor enforces or impose it. It has to come… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
