Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any… — William Hazlitt
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so… — Charles Caleb Colton
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of… — Roger von Oech
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you,… — Jane Roberts
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a… — Arthur W. Pink
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. — Blaise Pascal
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. — Horace
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. — Plutarch
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men. — Alexander Pope
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. — Nicolas Chamfort
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own… — William Gilbert
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor,… — Andrew Jackson
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken

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