“ 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- Copy
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“ Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward. ”
- Claudius- Copy
- 1K
“ It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ”
- Francesco Petrarch- Copy
- 186
“ Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. ”
- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand- Copy
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“ They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ”
- Pietro Aretino- Copy
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“ If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. ”
- William Gilbert- Copy
- 436
“ I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
- 453
“ If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
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“ The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
- 423
“ There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 922
“ Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ”
- Jacques Maritain- Copy
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“ Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries… ”
- Sydney J. Harris- Copy
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“ Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 418
“ Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 355
“ Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ”
- Paul Eldridge- Copy
- 2.3K
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