Merit Quotes - Page 12

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others.

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid.

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.