Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime. — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. — Timothy Keller 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
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
In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the… — Leon Morris Copy Share Image
Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you… Do not mistake, when I say company above you,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest;… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with… — Horace Copy Share Image
“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I wanted what most people wanted—love, companionship. I wanted someone to touch. I wanted someone to touch me back. I wanted someone… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby Copy Share Image
