Merit Quotes - Page 5

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That's what we need here.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.