Top Merit Quotes
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
Kate Adie
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward F. Halifax
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Francis Wright
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Christian Nestell Bovee 
Thomas Carlyle 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
Petrarch 
George Soros 
Ward Churchill 
Samuel Richardson 
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
Kate Adie 
80% of people like this quote
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward F. Halifax
72% of people like this quote
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
62% of people like this quote
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Francis Wright
61% of people like this quote
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
61% of people like this quote
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
Matthew Simpson
60% of people like this quote
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw
58% of people like this quote
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
John Zimmerman
57% of people like this quote
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