“Attested prowess, the only means by which one's merit and substance can be affirmed".” — Daryavesh Rothmensch Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality. — Stephen Jay Gould 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
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself… — Bernard of Clairvaux 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
When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly,… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
