Merit Quotes - Page 8

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

There is a proud modesty in merit.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.