Merit Quotes

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Charles Baudelaire
Music Dance Additional Everything Dancing Hidden Poetry Mysterious Merit Arms Reveal Human Being Legs Being Human Palpable
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Positive Fault Everything Finding Sees Scholar Merit Learner Always Begins
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare
Lost Reputation Merit Most Without Got Idle Imposition False Oft Deserving
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
Work Hard Work Employees Performance Merit Judged Irrelevant Should Aspects Hard Workplace
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Coco Chanel
Nature You Age Face Gives Merit Up Fifty Twenty
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. John Calvin
God Justice Mercy Own Punishment Part Sin Merit Another Attributes Without Glory His Salvation Any Human Just Eternal Race Human Race Preordained Display
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope
Soul Strike Sight Charms Wins Merit
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. Edgar Allan Poe
Few Think Considered Case Cases Proper Mere Merit Test Which Should Popularity
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. Thomas Carlyle
Merit Sincerity Novelty Originality
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
Positive War Quality Dangerous Crime Soldier Statesman Delight Merit Captain
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. P. J. O'Rourke
Politics Achieve Power Prestige Attempt Merit Without
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Igor Stravinsky
Merit Also Duck Hear Hears Effort Listen Just
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift
Success Happy Miserable Power Only Merit Prudence Fortune
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great Great Deal Poet Think Ought Statues Find More Poetry Highest Nobody Merit Pictures Look Read Deal Than Artist Cannot Them Who Expressed Actually
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People Pride Envy Own Think Enough Mark Others Considerable Take Conceited Merit May Being Unfortunate Them Themselves Fortune
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
Arrogance Those More Part Merit Without Itself Offensive Than Us Even
I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them. Guy Kawasaki
Work Hard Work Change People World Entitlement Try Others Kids Would Merit Like Accept Because Where Succeed Them Hard Inherit
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. James Russell Lowell
World Light Flame Reputation Wavering Easily Out Finds Uncertain Only Merit Looks Blown Candle Which
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. Sallust
Good Honesty Money King Good Deeds Soldiers Neither Only Merit Nor Won Friends Deeds Defend
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen Jay Gould
Time Science Physics Tomorrow Degree Possibility Would Would-Be Rise Only Classrooms Fact Merit Suppose Equal Withhold Does Provisional Confirmed Mean Might Perverse Assent Apples Start
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. Benjamin Disraeli
Merit Least Preservation
'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as a result of our being a meritocracy, if you have not succeeded, you are of lesser merit. It is shameful to be a failure in this country. Caterina Fake
Failure You Result Country Every Too President Our Kid Shameful Merit American Being Succeeded Unintended Lesser Belief Every American Consequence
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. Charlotte Bronte
Nature You Cast Merit Majority Mould Did Different Yours
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. George Soros
Needs Think Markets Merit Economy Global Look Because Lot After Social International Sufficient
I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit. Telly Savalas
Carry Badge Merit Like Proud Greek
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. Adam Clarke
Happiness Nature Result Value Purchased Only Perfect Price Divine Merit Than Infinite Infinitely Infinity Any Cannot Which Less Now
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