The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances… — John Moulder Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them.… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and… — Chris Horner Copy Share Image
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
