Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body… — St. Catherine of Siena
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of… — Milarepa
The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life.… — Elyse Fitzpatrick
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in… — Wayne Grudem
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of… — Jack Kerouac
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only… — James Goldsmith
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue — Alexander Pope
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except… — Aristotle
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical. — Bertrand Russell
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. — Pietro Aretino
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it… — Annie Dillard
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the… — Daniel Starch
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown… — Swami Vivekananda
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we… — Berenice Abbott
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit. — Sachin Tendulkar
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of… — Samuel Johnson
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. — Jean de la Bruyere
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six… — Desiderius Erasmus
For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at… — Sun Tzu
Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination… — Walter Scott
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the… — William Blake
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption… — Samuel Johnson
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so… — Prosper of Aquitaine

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