Merits Quotes

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time. — Keir Starmer

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. — Nicolas Malebranche

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. — John Rawls

Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits. — Bauvard

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. — Charles Caleb Colton

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age — Lord Chesterfield

Though strength be wanting, the will to action
Merits praise. — Ovid

On their own merits modest men are dumb. — George Colman

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. — Paul Eldridge

God alone is God, and he alone merits first place - beyond every other love, every other anxiety, every other fear that consumes us. — Craig S. Keener

Try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ... results ... I wish you the best in your difficult task. — Albert Schweitzer

Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits. — Marlin Stutzman

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. — Eddie Cahill

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. — Publilius Syrus

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. — Park Geun-hye

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself. — Louis Kronenberger

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his. — Bryan Chapell

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. — James Anthony Froude

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. — Raheel Farooq

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality. — John Buchan

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits. — James Packer

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal. — Lakshmi Mittal

I want to be judged on my own merits. — Park Geun-hye

It teaches us not to regard others according to their own merits, but to consider in them the image of God to which we owe both honor and love. But — John Calvin

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall. — Lee Haney

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. — Sallust

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life ... — Leo Tolstoy

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing. — Sebastian Junger

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier. — Sigmund Freud

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare

But whosoever recount his true merits to Thee, what is it that he recounts to Thee but Thine own gifts? Oh, if men would know themselves to be men ... — Augustine Of Hippo

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits. — Cher

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither. — Richard Barnet

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience — Rene Char

Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits. — Yogi Bhajan

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. — Epictetus

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. — Mark Twain

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. — Julian Fellowes

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own. — John Wesley

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits. — Steven Weber

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention. — Amy Hardie

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits. — Charles Spurgeon

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator. — Martin Luther

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits. — David Boies

I treat them the way I want to be treated - based on their individual merits as human beings, not on their skin tone. — Jodi Picoult

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years. — Sophocles

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time. — Fred Upton

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ. — Daniel Morgan

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form. — Maimonides

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. — Rex Stout

He had just been palatable, like ketchup. Ketchup had its merits. But no one would ever fill a bowl with that stuff. — Bella Forrest

The good man does not grieve
that other people do not recognize his merits.
His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs. — Confucius

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. — John Sweeney

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes

A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base. — Christopher Priest

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things. — Matt Holliday

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot. — William Shakespeare

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

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. — Torquato Tasso

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty. — John Vianney

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. — C.V. Wedgwood

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? — Anton Chekhov

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage. — Mark McKinnon

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. — Samuel Adams

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs. — Confucius

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means. — Joseph Sobran

If a person do not seek God's face, all of his merits will be working for evil — Sunday Adelaja

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. — Johnny Rich

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin

God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either. — Martin Luther

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. — Alexander Rodchenko

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics. — Ron Barber

Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection. — James C. Scott

To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults — Sunday Adelaja

making judgments under the pressure of a crisis, about weighing the relative merits of various choices with potentially catastrophic outcomes. — Timothy F. Geithner

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration ... The words used, however, should be old ones. — Fujiwara No Teika

What is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits. — Martin Luther

Do you know your Bible?'
'Uh, not very well.'
'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies. — Robert A. Heinlein

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. — Harold Brodkey

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ. — Thomas Aquinas

The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees, — Marcel Proust

In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration. — Doug Larson