Merit Quotes - Page 7

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has been silenced, but it can only be silenced when it is has been perfectly fulfilled—when it has been completed. And that’s just what Jesus did.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.