In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I appreciate having been promoted for merit, on merit. And then bringing to bear whatever those extra special characteristics that all of… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the… — Max Lucado 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
It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. — Fujiwara no Teika Copy Share Image
It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
It's nice to be able to make a room full of people laugh, and there is a lot of merit to stand-up… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
