Top Merit Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Merit quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of John Rawls
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
- John Rawls
Collection: Merit
Image of David Platt
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.
- David Platt
Collection: Merit
Image of Harold Pinter
How can the unknown merit reverence?
- Harold Pinter
Collection: Merit
Image of Elias Lyman Magoon
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
- Elias Lyman Magoon
Collection: Merit
Image of Galen
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
- Galen
Collection: Merit
Image of Galen
The chief merit of language is clearness.
- Galen
Collection: Merit
Image of Pope Gregory I
If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
- Pope Gregory I
Collection: Merit
Image of Laetitia Pilkington
Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
- Laetitia Pilkington
Collection: Merit
Image of Plutarch
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
- Plutarch
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Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Collection: Merit
Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Collection: Merit
Image of Judd Nelson
It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.
- Judd Nelson
Collection: Merit
Image of Claude Monet
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
- Claude Monet
Collection: Merit
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Merit
Image of Errol Morris
It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
- Errol Morris
Collection: Merit
Image of Seneca the Younger
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Merit
Image of William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
- William Blake
Collection: Merit
Image of Jane Porter
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
- Jane Porter
Collection: Merit
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Merit
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Merit
Image of Plutarch
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
- Plutarch
Collection: Merit
Image of Christian Nestell Bovee
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
Collection: Merit
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Merit
Image of George Washington
Merit rarely goes unrewarded.
- George Washington
Collection: Merit
Image of Chanakya
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
- Chanakya
Collection: Merit
Image of Tenzin Palmo
Merit clears away obstacles.
- Tenzin Palmo
Collection: Merit
Image of Tenzin Palmo
It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.
- Tenzin Palmo
Collection: Merit
Image of John Calvin
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.
- John Calvin
Collection: Merit
Image of Tenzin Palmo
The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.
- Tenzin Palmo
Collection: Merit
Image of Nicolas Chamfort
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
- Nicolas Chamfort
Collection: Merit
Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collection: Merit
Image of Mason Cooley
The rich feel full of merit.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Merit
Image of Epictetus
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.
- Epictetus
Collection: Merit
Image of Henry Fielding
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.
- Henry Fielding
Collection: Merit
Image of Baltasar Gracian
The more merit, the less affection.
- Baltasar Gracian
Collection: Merit
Image of Stephen Jay Gould
The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: Merit
Image of Benjamin Franklin
Great Modesty often hides great Merit.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Merit
Image of James Anthony Froude
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
- James Anthony Froude
Collection: Merit
Image of Lee Haney
A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.
- Lee Haney
Collection: Merit
Image of Samuel Johnson
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Merit
Image of Herman Melville
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Merit