And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those… — William Law 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
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Instead of engaging on the merits and saying, "Well, we want an open border, you know, we really do," and that's all… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful. — Catullus Copy Share Image
Forgive people not just because they deserve it, but because you may need it someday. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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