Quotes and Sayings About Merit
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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.
-- Ada LeversonSource : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...
-- Ada Leverson -
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
-- Adam Clarke -
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
-- Alain de Botton -
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
-- Alexander Pope -
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
-- Alexander Pope -
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
-- Alexander Pope -
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
-- Alexandre DumasSource : Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.269, Penguin
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
-- Anders Chydenius -
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Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
-- Anton Chekhov -
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
-- Augustus William HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.6
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My company believes in hiring people based on merit.
-- Azim Premji -
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
-- Billy Graham -
Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of his beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of Grace
-- Brennan Manning -
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It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.
-- C. L. R. James -
Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.
-- Catherine the Great -
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand