Merit Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Merit
The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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
It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend. — Laozi 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
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
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 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
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 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
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
