Merit Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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