Edmund Burke on achievement
Edmund Burke107 quotes“When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.”
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph HellerJoseph Heller In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
Jesse JacksonJesse Jackson If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse JacksonJesse Jackson In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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