Merited Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
— Elinor Wylie
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In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth…
— J I Packer
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This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not…
— Tertullian
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A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice,…
— Jose Rizal
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Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
— Bill Parcells
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Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and…
— Marcus Garvey
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Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still,…
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
— Paul Gauguin
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such…
— Salman Rushdie
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A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born…
— Baltasar Gracian
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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is…
— George Eliot
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I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Who Wrote These Merited Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Merited Quotes as follows: