Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. — Frank Ocean
When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it… — Kevin O'Leary
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed.… — David Ogilvy
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one… — Edgar Allan Poe
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope
I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me… — Daniel Radcliffe
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. — Nick Rahall
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self,… — Mitt Romney
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Eleanor Roosevelt
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. — George Santayana
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. — Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. — George Bernard Shaw
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. — George Soros
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that… — Sonia Sotomayor
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. — Torquato Tasso
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom. — Scott Walker
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will… — Booker T. Washington
I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a… — J C Watts
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on… — Steven Weber

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