Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer. — William James Copy Share Image
“If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked… — chloe neill Copy Share Image
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice — David Landes Copy Share Image
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall. — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit… They confound the brilliance of the firmament with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think Hillary Clinton has made great strides in doing so, even though there are people who want to bring us back… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance… — Francois de la Noue Copy Share Image
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong.… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want others to respect you, you've got to show that you deserve to be respected and that can be done… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both. — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
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