We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society..

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

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their office….

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained..

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words..

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled..

The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and j….

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion..

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found..

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime..

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

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof..

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute..

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard..

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

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out..

You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit ….

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised..

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed..

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships ….