Quotes:
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
View quotes by Francis Quarles
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
View quotes by Emily Dickinson
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
View quotes by Isaac Disraeli
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
View quotes by Lord Byron
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There's not many players who can say they've had the privilege of playing in the Masters. This is the first year I've got there on merit and I'm really looking forward to it
View quotes by Shaun Murphy
Pride, in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit
View quotes by Johann Georg Von Zimmermann
There is no merit in avoiding a fall by never climbing. The successful team is that which makes one plus one equal 11.
View quotes by Sheikh Mohammed
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
View quotes by Alexander Pope
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers
View quotes by Zoroaster
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
View quotes by Thorstein Veblen
I believe in a country where hard work and merit, not privilege or background, determine success. [He didn't outline which country he was referring to]
View quotes by Tony Blair
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
View quotes by Samuel Butler
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
View quotes by Coco Chanel
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.
View quotes by Peter Cook
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