45 Demerit Quotes
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Famous Demerit Quotes
Credit you give yourself is not worth having. — Irving Thalberg
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. — Emily Dickinson
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence. — Seneca
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
The only thing you deserve is what you earn — Tom Brands
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. — Plutarch
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare
Vices are their own punishment — Aesop
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Joseph Joubert
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. — Mark Twain
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Blame is a lazy man's wages. — Danish proverb
How vain, without the merit, is the name. — Homer
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. — Benjamin Franklin
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. — Edward Coke
Short Demerit Quotes
- Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature. — Howard Thurman
- Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot
- You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. — Donella Meadows
- A small demerit extinguishes a long service. — Thomas Fuller
People Writing About Demerit
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Irving Thalberg |
11 | 126 |
 Emily Dickinson |
520 | 5008 |
 Seneca |
1196 | 4543 |
 Friedrich Nietzsche |
2473 | 32550 |
 Plutarch |
392 | 3879 |
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
More Demerit Quotes
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death. — Sarada Devi
Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this. — Origen
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. — Theodore Roosevelt
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God...Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin?-take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross. — John Owen
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J. I. Packer
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. — Sallust
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. — Francis Wright
The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur. — Chanakya
For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters! — Robert Browning
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. — Seneca
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10). — John Flavel
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers. — H. L. Mencken
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ. — Thomas Aquinas
I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes. — Deng Xiaoping
I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever. — Edward Albee
The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions. — Herman Melville
The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind. — Bill Vaughan
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. — C. S. Lewis
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation. — Laurie Halse Anderson
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