Appearance Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appearance Appearance Merit Merit Merit Merit Reward Rewards Appearance World Rewards
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them and despise them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.” — François La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You can have a nice body, dress with the latest fashion. But if you don't have self-confidence sweetheart, forget about looking sexy, you can't… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
