Top 414 Merits Quotes & Sayings

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

I have voted on the merits of legislation, voting both 'with' and 'against' my party.

I judge each person on individual merits.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

All players have equal duties and merits and share the reward and sometimes the blame.

We must recognize our opponents' merits.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Although all studios are now moving towards digitalization, a foundation in which we draw pictures by hand hasn't changed, so I foresee that we will continue to keep it in the future. After all, we used the digital method based on a conception of expanding and advancing the expression of the traditional animation cel in Steamboy. The first goal of this project was to overcome limitations of camera angles caused by platforms. On that aspect, I won't go back to the traditional method. I hoped to combine the merits of the traditional method of cel animation with the merits of the new CGI method.

I want to be judged on my own merits.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

I'm here to govern for everybody and I hope that people judge me on my merits and what I can do.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

The viewers have the brains to decide the merits of a film and there is no point in blaming them if it flops.

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I take every job on its merits.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.