Merit Quotes - Page 9

• There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sacrifice, Men, Two

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• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Real, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Revenge, Philosophical, Mind

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• That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Envy, May

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• Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, May, Rewards

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• The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fate, Men, Good Man

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• Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Men, Order

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• The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Rewards, World, Appearance

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• Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mind, Body, Birth

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.174, Booklassic

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• We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Proud, Blame, Prize

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• Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

  David Platt

  Mercy, Divine, Salvation

  Twitter post from May 13, 2012

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• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

  Marquis de Sade

  God, Religious, Men

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• The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Wise, War

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• I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of baggage - my history as a genre writer in the SF and horror fields, for instance - to the novel when they read it. I wanted them to consider the book solely on its own merits. So I called myself Colin Andrews. I was tired of seeing my books at floor level. Not that Herman Wouk and Phyllis Whitney and William Wharton are bad company, but I wanted to be up at eye level for a change, where people with bad backs could get a chance to see my books.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Book, Eye, Tired

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• I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their own merit, their good deeds, however simple, to not judge themselves by what they have materially, by what other people think of them, through social media.

  Patti Smith

  Simple, Thinking, Media

  Source: thehollywoodvoice.com

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• I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because I was adopted and thus have always tended to cavalierly dismiss the importance of "blood ties" and any inherited or "unearned" group characteristics.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Blood, Ties, Groups

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Politician, Deals

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• Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, Charity, Birth

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

  Ibn Warraq

  Responsibility, Rights, Miracle

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

  Narendra Modi

  Jobs, Empowerment, India

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• I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.

  John Adams

  Men, Catholic, Earth

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.219

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• Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

  Scott Walker

  Mean, Fire, Reform

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• By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Two, Redemption, Debt

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• NO NEUTRALS IN HEAVEN. There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan. Every man had his agency there, and men receive rewards here based upon their actions there, just as they will receive rewards hereafter for deeds done in the body. The Negro, evidently, is receiving the reward he merits

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  War, Men, Agency

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