Merit Quotes - page 17

I understand myself better now, I know what I want from a relationship. I have more communication skills with a partner. It seems to me that the main thing is to learn to be near a person in ordinary, non-romantic moments. This is the most difficult, and for this you need to be able to negotiate with yourself. I now have more patience - and to the partner, and to myself. Perhaps this is not the merit of my ex-husband or our relationship, it's just that I've gotten older. I'm so tired of the fact that the directors ask at the casting if my throat hurts. I appreciate those who say that I have an unusual voice. (Scarlett Johansson)
Speaking of women's favours, M. de ... used to say: It is an auction room business, and neither feeling nor merit are ever successful bidders. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
I dream of building a community of dancers in a forsaken place amidst nature. A place where nothing exists, except dance. A place where you breathe, eat, sleep, dream, talk, imagine - dance. A place where all the five senses can be refined to perfection. A place where dancers drop negative qualities such as jealousy, small-mindedness, greed and malice to embrace their colleagues as sisters and support each other in their journey towards becoming dancers of merit. A place called Nrityagram. View quote
Protima Bedi
The more merit, the less affection. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. View quote
Jane Austen
Justice in no wise consists in meting out to another that exact measure of reward or punishment which we think and decree his merit, or what we call his crime, which is more often merely his error, deserves. View quote
Albert Pike
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. View quote
Francis Bacon
Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do, if she find him jealous. View quote
Francis Bacon
The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. View quote
Francis Bacon
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. (Alexandre Dumas)
At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying. View quote
Norman Lamm
To be vain, is rather a mark of humility than pride. Vain men delight in telling what honours have been done them, what great company they have kept, and the like, by which they plainly confess that these honours were more than their due, and such as their friends would not believe, if they had not been told: whereas a man truly proud, thinks the greatest honours below his merit, and consequently scorns to boast. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. View quote
Plutarch
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens. View quote
Thucydides
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
A government which cannot be reformed does not merit to be preserved. View quote
John W. Campbell
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. View quote
Frances Wright
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. View quote
Mitt Romney
The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future. (Condoleezza Rice)
A work of real merit finds favor at last. View quote
Amos Bronson Alcott
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great masters merit emulation, not worship. View quote
Alan Cohen