Merit Quotes - Page 2

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.