Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Benjamin Franklin

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Ben Affleck

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

Jean Giraudoux

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.

May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.

we should note that there will never be merit raises.

Alexander Pope

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Claude Monet

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

David Platt

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

David Platt

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

Mark Twain

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits

Stephen Jay Gould

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

John Sweeney

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

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

We have not studied all of them. Many of them may be sound, while there may be others that merit override consideration.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

Napoleon Bonaparte

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

Henry Fielding

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit

Herman Melville

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Harold Pinter

How can the unknown merit reverence?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

George Will

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

George Washington

Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

Jean Toomer

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

George Bernard Shaw

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.