result quotes

• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. (Samuel Johnson) [right/result/human/wisdom]
• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. (William James) [result/system/change/system]
• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ( Aristotle) [result/habit/acts/acts]
• Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. (Henry Ward Beecher) [result]
• A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. (Georges Bernanos) [result/action/action]
• But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame. (Charlotte Bronte) [master/result/willpower/willpower]
• The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. (Italo Calvino) [land/language/result]
• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [result/nature]
• Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result. (Winston Churchill) [life/result]
• Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. (Julio Cortazar) [human/result]
• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. (Denis Diderot) [morals/countries/result/government]
• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. (Albert Einstein) [men/pain/result/state]
• There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. (Benjamin Franklin) [being/result]
• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. (Mahatma Gandhi) [find/result/prayer/life]
• Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [result/wisdom]
• What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [life/life/result/life]
• To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. (Emma Goldman) [mind//result/chaos]
• What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine. (Germaine Greer) [result/personality]
• Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. (Andrew Grove) [activity/result]
• When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy. (Ben Hecht) [people/activities/result/magic]
• In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. (Georg Hegel) [result/human/desire/interest]
• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. (Napoleon Hill) [result/selfishness]
• The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. (Eric Hoffer) [result/needs/leisure/think]
• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. (Victor Hugo) [result/education]
• Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. (David Hume) [character/result/system]
• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. (William James) [care/result/willpower]
• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals. (Derek Jarman) [approach/result/approach/church]
• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal. (Thomas Jefferson) [state/result/attempt/facts]
• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. (Samuel Johnson) [housing/result/desire]
• The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen Keller) [result/education/tolerance]
• We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals. (Milan Kundera) [relations/result/love/charity]

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