Merit Quotes

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.

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.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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.