Merit Quotes

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton

Person, Rather, Appreciate

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust

Good, Money, Honesty

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire

Music, Poetry, Human

How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Homer

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

Politics, Position, Fired

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

Individual, Democratic, Views

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.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Successful, Ambition

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
Sachin Tendulkar

Simple, Play, Keep

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.
Brian Eno

Good, Fun, Else

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

Time, Science, Tomorrow

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson

Thinking, Down, Takes

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte

Nature, Different, Majority

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Joseph Lancaster

Youth, Action, Genius

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

Success, Country, America

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Luc de Clapiers

Men, Enough, Sometimes

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.
Danica McKellar

Truth, Old, Talk

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky

Effort, Listen, Hear

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.
Junot Diaz

Work, Human, Why

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.
Alan Greenspan

Before, Moral, Facts

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.
Elia Kazan

Death, Waiting, Him

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

Both, Taken, Bit

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.
Kate Adie

Life, Famous, Thought

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.
Sloane Crosley

Brain, Personal, Seems

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

Life, Far, Name

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Jean Henri Fabre

Learning, Ignorance, Feeling

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.
Donald Cargill

God, Yourself, Forget

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Frank Ocean

Fear, Afraid, Touch

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

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
George Byron

Great, Nothing, Her

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
Al Yankovic

Funny, Work, Writing

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