Best Merit Quotes

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world’s poorest people.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

[We need] to choose immigrants based on merit. Merit, skill, and proficiency. Doesn’t that sound nice? And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first.

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties…

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians’ stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don’t so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

A man’s fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.

My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

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

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.