“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The ends justifies the means”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is not always the case that the ends justify the means; rather, in an ideal world, the ends SHOULD justify the means.”
Yosola Olaleye
“Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.”
Bible
“Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe”
Publilius Syrus