Merit Quotes

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

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 editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.