Their Merit Quotes
- Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one… — Luc de Clapiers
- What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. — Piers Anthony
- There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
- Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. — J. Christopher Herold
- The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J I Packer
- On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in… — George Mikes
- Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. — Charles Caleb Colton
- These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front… — E. Lockhart
- 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
- Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one… — Vauvenargues Marquis De
- I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor… — James Gunn