Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that… — William Cowper
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. — Heloise
Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your… — Geeta Iyengar
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. — Baltasar Gracian
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. — Petrarch
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer… — Jean de la Bruyere
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. — Mark Twain
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by… — William Shakespeare
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. — William Blake
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is… — W. Somerset Maugham
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,… — Samuel Johnson
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose… — Lord Chesterfield
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? — Alexander Pope
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. — Alexander Pope
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. — Walter Savage Landor
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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