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Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
— E.B. White
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Just a few weeks before, no detail of my life had been big enough to merit my attention.
— Amor Towles
There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.
— Kevin O'Leary
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
— John Rawls
No one is mandating merit pay.
— Arne Duncan
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Fame is no sure test of merit.
— Thomas Carlyle
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
— Friedrich Schiller
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
— Igor Stravinsky
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...
— Ada Leverson
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
— Seneca The Younger
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale ... Love loves; this is its nature.
— Howard Thurman
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.
— Jalen Rose
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
No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
— Winston Churchill
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
— William Law
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.
— Gautama Buddha
You have no merit of your own to plead why He should pardon you, but plead His written promises and He will perform them. Are
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad.
— C.S. Lewis
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.
— Isaac Asimov
Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right? — Lisa Renee Jones
It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.
— W. Somerset Maugham
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.
— Jean De La Bruyere
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
— Ernest Rutherford
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
— Justin Trudeau
If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.
— Kerry Greenwood
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
— Thorstein Veblen
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...
— Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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
If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
— Edmund Waller
But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
— Charlotte Bronte
What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
— Mahatma Gandhi