Merit Quotes - Page 14

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

I judge each person on individual merits.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.