Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted.… — Laozi
It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are… — Thomas a Kempis
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken… — Laozi
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. — P.J. O'Rourke
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is… — Bill Gates
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents. — Subcomandante Marcos
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just… — Elliott Abrams
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. — Jules Verne
In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance. — Paul Singer
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman. — Jean Giraudoux
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. — Francis Quarles
On their own merits modest men are dumb. — George Colman
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. — John Zimmerman
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it… — Thomas Clarkson
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you… — Frederick Pollock
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. — Frances Wright
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some… — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards,… — Arthur Capper
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based… — Scott Walker
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit. — Rand Paul
Merit should count more than academic background. — Lee Myung-bak
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit. — Horace

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