Merit

Famous quotes containing the word merit:

“Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Be thou the first true merit to befriend;
His praise is lost who stays till all commend.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)