Quotes about merit

Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

— Joseph Addison

Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.

— Claudius

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

— Doug Horton

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

— Walter Savage Landor

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

— Lord Palmerston

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

— Francesco Petrarch

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

— Alexander Pope

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

— Proverb

Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.

— French Proverb

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

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand