Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from… — Ching Hai
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those… — John Quincy Adams
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from… — Al-Ghazali
You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit… — Unknown Author
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to… — Ezra Pound
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient… — Henry Lawson
Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist,"… — Dave Chappelle
For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success… — James A. Garfield
I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating. — Mason Cooley
Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. — Desiderius Erasmus
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend… — Oliver Goldsmith
There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its… — James Packer
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And… — David Hurn
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,… — James Russell Lowell
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will… — Mahatma Gandhi
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing.… — Mahatma Gandhi
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. — Elias Lyman Magoon
It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits. — Charles Spurgeon
I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the… — Unknown Author
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him. — St. Jerome
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice — David Landes
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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