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Merit Quotes

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

Homer, Greek Poet

"The only people who are qualified for miracles are the people who have qualified themselves by doing their own best."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Merit, Miracles, Qualify, Effort, Growth

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

Laurence J. Peter, Canadian Writer

Merit, Today, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday

"Merit is better than miracles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Merit, Achievement, Effort, Success

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

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Merit, Reputation

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