Merit Quotes - Page 15

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

I take every job on its merits.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

I don't think the world works on merit.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

No one is mandating merit pay.