Merit Quotes & Sayings
These merit quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time. - Sir Thomas Browne
View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own. - Charles Churchill
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honour, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Age is no mark of merit unless you do something constructive with it. - Irving Berlin
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. - Charles Caleb Colton
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. - Alexander Pope
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one. - Napoleon Bonaparte