Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human… — W. Somerset Maugham
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. — Rex Stout
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. — Anthony Trollope
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit. — Denis Fonvizin
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty… — John Milton
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit. — P.J. O'Rourke
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. — Paul Eldridge
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would… — Harold Pinter
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature. — Howard Thurman
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of… — George Orwell
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by… — Thomas B. Macaulay
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul… — Mark Twain
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for… — Aaron Hill
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed… — Theodore Levitt
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils… — Benjamin Rush
Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong,… — Michael Josephson
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining… — Samuel Johnson
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. — Thomas Browne
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. — Thomas Carlyle
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear,… — Samuel Johnson
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. — Saint Augustine

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