Merit Quotes

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Merit should count more than academic background.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

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 a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

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

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

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

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

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