Merit Quotes

“On their own merits modest men are dumb.”

“By merit raised
To that bad eminence.”

“The force of his own merit makes his way.”

“The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.”

“Le mérite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.”

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“The spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes.”

“...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.”

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“La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le mérite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.”

“Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences de mérite que le mérite même.”

“Du même fonds dont on néglige un homme de mérite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.”

“Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.”

“Il y a du mérite sans élévation mais il n'y a point d'élévation sans quelque mérite.”

“A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.”

“It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.”

“He who thinks to be justified by any strength or merit of his own, and not by faith, puts himself in the place of God.”

“Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.”

“The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.”

“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.”