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Merits Quotes

Lee Myung-bak quote: "Merit should count more than academic background."
Merit should count more than academic background. Lee Myung-bak
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand quote: "Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and..."
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. Mahatma Gandhi
For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it. Martin Luther
John Sweeney quote: "People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup,..."
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. John Sweeney
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. John Podesta
Charles Caleb Colton quote: "Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit,..."
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. Charles Caleb Colton
Kevin O'Leary quote: "When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me..."
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
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
Francis Quarles quote: "The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not..."
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. Francis Quarles
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
...the holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Well, the fact is," said Celia, in a burst of girlish frankness, "Irather think I've killed George."Killed him, eh?"It was a solution that had not occurred to me, but now that it waspresented for my inspection I could see its merits. In these days ofnational effort, when we are all working together to try to make ourbeloved land fit for heroes to live in, it was astonishing that nobodybefore had thought of a simple, obvious thing like killing GeorgeMackintosh. George Mackintosh was... P. G. Wodehouse
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. Jane Austen
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar... Max Weber

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