Merit Quotes

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

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

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

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.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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

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

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

There's always merit to having a debate.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.