Merit Quotes - Page 5

• Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

  Emily Dickinson

  Punishment, Literature, Talent

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

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Men, Opinion, One Man

  In Thomas Carlyle 'Shooting Niagara: and After?' (1867) ch. 8

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• It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

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• The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doe, Losing, Sometimes

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• Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

  Ajahn Chah

  Effort, Meditation, Overcoming

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• There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

  Aaron Hill

  Strength, Hero, Coward

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

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• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Ambition, Men, People

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• If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

  William Gilbert

  Success, Blow, Wish

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• A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

  Paul Scofield

  Book, Appreciate, Cash

  "Fictional character: Colonel Franz Von Waldheim". "The Train", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

  Sue Kelly

  Veterans Day, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

  Norman Lamm

  Law, Discipline, Degrees

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• 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.

  Donald Cargill

  Mercy Of God, Remember, Sin

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• 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

  Zoroaster

  Religious, Prayer, Care

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• Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Medicine, Attention, Insignificant

  Medical Observations 5, Ch. 2

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• We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.
  [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

  Plautus

  Trying, Doe, Favors

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• Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dying, Live For Today, Know How

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• 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.

  Mike Thompson

  Believe, Silence, Global Warming

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• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, May, Tests

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.75

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• The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cat, Sacrifice, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Silence, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Assumption, Talent

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

  James Russell Lowell

  May, Drink, Temperance

  James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Biglow papers”, p.111

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• There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

  Conrad Black

  Believe, Essence, Government

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• ...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.

  Anders Chydenius

  Littles, Fatherland

  "For What Reason do so Many Swedes Emigrate Every Year?". Book by Anders Chydenius, 1765.

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• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Moon, Clouds, Obscure

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