Quotes on Merit

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Author: Joseph Addison

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

Author: Piers Anthony

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Author: Jim Barksdale

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Author: George Byron

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Author: Lord Byron

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Author: Charles Colton

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Author: Edward Halifax

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Author: Homer

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Author: Edgar Poe

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Author: Francis Quarles

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

Author: Jose Santos

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Author: William Shakespeare

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Author: Charles Talleyrand

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

Author: Sachin Tendulkar