Quotes
Quotes about End
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.
Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Leadership is not magnetic personality â that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' â that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.
No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
