Affair Quote by Catherine the Great

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

— Alexander Pope

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt…

— Aeschines

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of…

— Aristotle

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

— Wallace D. Wattles

“men ought ever to desire to be served by one who has reaped experience at the expense of others.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't…

— Jack Scalia

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

— George Bernard Shaw

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

— Charles Churchill

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

— Voltaire

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them…

— Woodrow Wilson