Winning isn’t everything – means vs ends

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life

I have no hope left, but I have the knowledge that when the end comes, I will have lived by my own standards, even

If you can’t win fairly, you don’t deserve to win.

Winning is important. But it is not as important as striving to win. And victory as an end does not justify the means.

‘You would do evil to produce good?’ asked Mr. Booker ‘I do not call it doing evil. you have to destroy a thousand living

Here is a man who boldly says that he recognizes no such law; that wealth is power, and that power is good, and the

Mrs. Hurtle: They tell me that he holds the world of commerce in his right hand. What power – what grandeur! Paul Montague: Grand

I had rather you be worthy possessors of one thousand pounds honestly acquired by your own labor and industry, than of ten millions by

The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.