Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit… — Timothy Keller
The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also,… — Alain de Botton
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never… — Louise Mensch
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to… — Ajahn Chah
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. — Park Geun-hye
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in… — Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… — Samuel Johnson
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of… — Douglas Hurd
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a… — T Bone Burnett
Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented… — Stephen Reinhardt
I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth in this great… — Bruce R. McConkie
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. — Henry Fielding
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory -… — Unknown Author
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that… — Robert Farrar Capon
The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has… — Satoru Iwata
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official… — Hugh Nibley
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the… — Kenny Smith
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women. — Unknown Author
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere
Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection. — Huston Smith
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. — Ambrose Bierce
The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better… — Tom Coburn
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means. — Joseph Sobran
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the… — Bernard Lown

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