Merit Quotations

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

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.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

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.

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

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

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

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

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

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul

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

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.

I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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.

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

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'

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

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

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

If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

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.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

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.

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

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist, but I just view that as having fun.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

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

There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along.

We believe this suit has no merit and is simply a transparent effort to pry money from our company even though we've always provided full disclosure of all material company information to shareholders and the public.

What little man has to accomplish must be done quickly, at the place that is assigned to him and within the time that is allotted to him. And, man has such a formidable task before him; it is to fulfill it that he has come as man, exchanging for this human habitat all the merit he has acquired during many past lives. The task is no less than the manifestation of the Divinity latent in man.

With the inherent value in Cabot's capital program, we recommenced buying shares in late November and early December with the market pull back. We still see a lot of merit and long-term value for the shareholders in looking at COG stock as an investment alternative.

Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.

Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I've wronged or caused to suffer.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

I don't think the world works on merit.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

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

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

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

No one is mandating merit pay.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

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

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

We decided there was merit to the thing, and that your average Canadian doesn't want to see the thing put away and hidden just because of a commercial dispute in a professional hockey league.

We were disappointed that they decided to go ahead with the filing of the lawsuit. It has utterly no merit whatsoever, and we're convinced that we will prevail in court.

There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, ... There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time.

My company believes in hiring people based on merit.