Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good… — Unknown Author
The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end. — Genghis Khan
Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have… — Joao Magueijo
We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says… — Timothy Keller
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy,… — Timothy Keller
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he… — Herodotus
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same… — Unknown Author
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man… — Vincent Bugliosi
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of… — Camillo Golgi
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their… — Catharine MacKinnon
People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize… — James A. Champy
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating… — William Banting
I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For… — Jung Chang
I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own… — Dilma Rousseff
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is… — Max Stirner
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… — Marcel Proust
There's always merit to having a debate. — Ward Churchill
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty… — P.J. O'Rourke
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result… — Adam Clarke
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the… — Tammy Baldwin

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