Merit Quotes - Page 14

• The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Sacrifice, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1921). “Representative men. Miscellanies”

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• Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Possessiveness, Synonym

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Years, Long, Vision

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• Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, May, Rewards

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• That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Envy, May

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• The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fate, Men, Good Man

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• We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Proud, Blame, Prize

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• The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Rewards, World, Appearance

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• There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sacrifice, Men, Two

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• They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

  Thucydides

  Citizens, Rewards, Found

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

  Narendra Modi

  Jobs, Empowerment, India

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• I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Politician, Deals

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• What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

  Marquis de Sade

  God, Religious, Men

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• The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

  William Law

  Kindness, Charity, Persons

  William Law (1848). “A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young”, p.95

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• By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Two, Redemption, Debt

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• Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Suffering, Satisfaction, Christ

  "Works, Vol. 5". Book by Jonathan Edwards, E. Baines, p. 489, 1809.

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• Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

  John Locke

  Men, Theatre, Good Work

  John Locke (1825). “The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.140

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• Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fondness

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.227

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• There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Jobs, May, Bears

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• In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Heaven, Earth

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

  David Platt

  Mercy, Divine, Salvation

  Twitter post from May 13, 2012

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• Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Clarity, Substitutes

  "The Elements of Style". Book by E. B. White, Ch. V: An Approach to Style, 1959.

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• More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Glorious

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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