Deference Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deference Eminence Esteem Inspirational Merit Respectability
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
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. — Horace Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests… — George Will Copy Share Image
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain cases and… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
