Merit
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
To reward.
To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
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Merit Quotations
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
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
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Merit Translations
merit in Afrikaans is verdien
merit in Danish is fortjene
merit in Dutch is waard zijn, toekomen, verdienen
merit in Finnish is ansaita
merit in German is Verdienst
merit in Latin is excellentia, promereo, dignitas, promeritum
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