Quotes about Merits

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise. Votes: 3

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. Votes: 3

I saw an episode - the second episode [of Black Mirror], "Fifteen Million Merits" - and I completely flipped out: "This is what my nightmares are made of. This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen." Votes: 3

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. Votes: 2

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ. Votes: 2

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. Votes: 2

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. Votes: 2

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. Votes: 2

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000. Votes: 2

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. Votes: 2

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tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself. Votes: 2

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. Votes: 2

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things. Votes: 2

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree. Votes: 2

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real. Votes: 2

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. Votes: 2

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. Votes: 2

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. Votes: 2

I take every job on its merits. Votes: 0

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. Votes: 0

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics. Votes: 0

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. Votes: 0

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. Votes: 0

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating. Votes: 0

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. Votes: 0

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another Votes: 0

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. Votes: 0

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. Votes: 0

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. Votes: 0

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. Votes: 0

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience Votes: 0

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention. Votes: 0

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits. Votes: 0

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal. Votes: 0

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. Votes: 0

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case Votes: 0

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. Votes: 0

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot. Votes: 0

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. Votes: 0

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs. Votes: 0

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. Votes: 0

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. Votes: 0

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. Votes: 0

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. Votes: 0

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. Votes: 0

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. Votes: 0

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. Votes: 0

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. Votes: 0

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator. Votes: 0

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. Votes: 0

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. Votes: 0

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor Votes: 0

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? Votes: 0

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. Votes: 0

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. Votes: 0

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. Votes: 0

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither. Votes: 0

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall. Votes: 0

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing. Votes: 0

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. Votes: 0

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. Votes: 0

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality. Votes: 0

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. Votes: 0

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. Votes: 0

In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration. Votes: 0

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. Votes: 0

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... Votes: 0

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. Votes: 0

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits. Votes: 0

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits. Votes: 0

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. Votes: 0

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. Votes: 0

...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task. Votes: 0

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. Votes: 0

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time. Votes: 0

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards. Votes: 0

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets. Votes: 0

Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas. Votes: 0

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age Votes: 0

Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection. Votes: 0

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. Votes: 0

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated. Votes: 0

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. Votes: 0

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ. Votes: 0

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier. Votes: 0

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs. Votes: 0

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine. Votes: 0

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means. Votes: 0

Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits. Votes: 0

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty. Votes: 0

Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement. Votes: 0

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. Votes: 0

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern. Votes: 0

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's. Votes: 0

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good? Votes: 0

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. Votes: 0

(They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction. Votes: 0

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark. Votes: 0

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form. Votes: 0

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself. Votes: 0

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it. Votes: 0

As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks. Votes: 0

After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility. Votes: 0

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War. Votes: 0

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vérité filmmaking to more archival." Votes: 0

Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got. Votes: 0

It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude. Votes: 0

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect, Votes: 0

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. Votes: 0

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits Votes: 0

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side. Votes: 0

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. Votes: 0

No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God. Votes: 0

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve. Votes: 0

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. Votes: 0

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues. Votes: 0

Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung? Votes: 0

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well. Votes: 0

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. Votes: 0

My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings. Votes: 0

The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive. Votes: 0

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it. Votes: 0

I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me. Votes: 0

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining. Votes: 0

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building. Votes: 0

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy. Votes: 0

Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything. Votes: 0

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians. Votes: 0

In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature. Votes: 0

A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action. Votes: 0

I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits Votes: 0

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits Votes: 0

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages. Votes: 0

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections. Votes: 0

I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere. Votes: 0

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever. Votes: 0

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful. Votes: 0

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less. Votes: 0

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless. Votes: 0

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare Votes: 0

For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision ... Votes: 0