Merit Quotes

Respect is not a gift you have to earn it.

— Anonymous

There's no literary merit in my books.

— Clive Cussler

I take every job on its merits.

— Colin Baker

I'm a merit-based person.

— Emma Hayes

I don't think the world works on merit.

— Charles de Lint

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

— Homer

There is no merit in our political parties.

— Reham Khan

Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

— George Washington

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

— Elizabeth Inchbald

My work has spoken for itself, and I've been offered work purely on merit.

— Mandira Bedi

“If only we could have picked our family...”

— Chloe Neill

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

— Alexander Pope

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

— Anonymous

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.”

— Milan Kundera

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

— Jules Verne

Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who…

— Henry Allen Ironside

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

— Joseph Addison

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

— George Bernard Shaw

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

— J. I. Packer

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

— Augustus William Hare

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the…

— Billy Graham

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;…

— John Milton

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what…

— Riz Ahmed

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is…

— William Bourke Cockran

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To…

— George Washington

I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice,…

— Ulisses Soares

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise…

— Ezra Pound

Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families……

— Stephen Reinhardt

I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of…

— Charles Darwin

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended…

— Samuel Johnson

The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the…

— Alfie Kohn

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will…

— Lord Chesterfield

When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll…

— Yvon Chouinard

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd