Quotes of: Merit Keyword

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Daniel Morgan

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Charlotte Bronte

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Paul Singer

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

Subcomandante Marcos

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

William Ernest Henley

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

The Rubber Band

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

Norm MacDonald

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Eddie Cahill

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

Horace

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

Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Philosophical Dictionary

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

The Three Musketeers