Citizenship Quote by Laozi

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

“The world more often rewards outward signs of merit than merit itself.”

— Anonymous

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin…

— Julian Barnes

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

— Charles Lamb

If You Wish Your Merit To Be Known, Acknowledge That Of Other People...

— Pacifiersucker

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by…

— Martin Luther

If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes…

— Keshub Chandra Sen

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

— Anonymous