We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs. — Confucius Copy Share Image
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You’re wearing your medal,” he said. I grazed the gold with my fingertips. “I wasn’t sure if I should, if it was… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness… — George Combe Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Together the magicks swirled and danced around us, invisible but tangible, like an breeze. This wasn't defensive or offensive magic. It wasn't… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at… — Ilana Glazer Copy Share Image
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good… — Dan Futterman Copy Share Image
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason... — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition -… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
