Joseph Estrada Quotes

No one ever resigns from the Council on Foreign Relations. They die.

We ought to see clearly that the end does justify the means

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

I have to leave the government in the year 2012. I have to go.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

I have no intentions of resigning.

I don't have any intention to resign.

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

We ought to consider the end in everything.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.