"Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem." — Nicolas Chamfort
"Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem."
More Deference Quotes
- Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient… — Charles Dickens
- Great men always pay deference to greater. — Walter Savage Landor
- Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes… — Christopher Hitchens
- People who expect deference resent mere civility. — Mason Cooley
- Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they… — Alexander Hamilton
- It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all… — James Madison
- The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match,… — Confucius
- The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue… — Thornton Wilder
- Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much… — Gordon B. Hinckley
- Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught… — Chris Hedges
- Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce
- Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of… — Medard Boss