Merit Quotes


Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope Merit 242
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. Charles Caleb Colton Merit 100
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit. Horace Merit 99
Never to reward any one equal to his merits; but always to insinuate that the reward was above it. Henry Fielding Merit 92
There is a certain noble pride, through which merit shines brighter than through modesty. Jean Paul Richter Merit 83
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. Francis Quarles Merit 80
Arrogance in persons of merit affronts us more than arrogance in those without merit. Merit itself is an affront. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Merit 78
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded. Charles Lamb Merit 73
I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I began to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely too eclipse that of others. Jean de La BruyÃ¨re Merit 72
Towers are measured by their shadows, and men of merit by those who are envious of them. Chinese Proverb Merit 71
Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known. Lord Chesterfield Merit 62
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. Francis Quarles Merit 62
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public. FranÃ§ois de La Rochefoucauld Merit 48
We can perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no preconceptions. James Fenimore Cooper Merit 42
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud. Christian BovÃ©e Merit 41

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