Challenges Quote by John Dryden

There is a proud modesty in merit.

— John Dryden

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of…

— Samuel Johnson

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

— Moliere

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove…

— Alan Greenspan

I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your…

— Vincent de Paul

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on…

— James Packer

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…

— Thomas Carlyle

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…

— James Gunn