Merit Quotes - Page 9

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in the Resurrection and eternal life. Such faith and hope invite into our lives the sweet peace of conscience for which we all yearn.

I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of his beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of Grace

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.