The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Winning isn’t everything – means vs ends
Pierre de Coubertin
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life
Ayn Rand
I have no hope left, but I have the knowledge that when the end comes, I will have lived by my own standards, even
Steele Bishop
Michael Kovalchik, Director of Athletics, Hillsdale College
Winning is important. But it is not as important as striving to win. And victory as an end does not justify the means.
Anthony Trollope
‘You would do evil to produce good?’ asked Mr. Booker ‘I do not call it doing evil. you have to destroy a thousand living
Anthony Trollope
Mrs. Hurtle: They tell me that he holds the world of commerce in his right hand. What power – what grandeur! Paul Montague: Grand
Anthony Trollope
Here is a man who boldly says that he recognizes no such law; that wealth is power, and that power is good, and the
John Adams
I had rather you be worthy possessors of one thousand pounds honestly acquired by your own labor and industry, than of ten millions by
Aldous Huxley
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.