Merit Quotes - Page 11

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

Merit clears away obstacles.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

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

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

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

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.