Top 100 Not Lead Quotes
#1. Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion and justice cannot be faithful worship of YHWH. The offer is a phony Sabbath!
Walter Brueggemann
#2. Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.
Carl Jung
#3. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.
Eugene V. Debs
#4. Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles
#5. There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.
Molly Ivins
#6. God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.
David Sills
#7. If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.
Joe Rogan
#8. The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.
Charles Spurgeon
#9. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Rumi
#11. We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.
Sheri Dew
#12. You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.
Anthony Albanese
#13. Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. He has not come; he never will come. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again.
Eugene V. Debs
#14. Only if we understand why and how certain kinds of economic controls tend to paralyze the driving forces of a free society, and which kinds of measures are particularly dangerous in this respect, can we hope that social experimentation will not lead us into situations none of us want.
Friedrich Hayek
#15. If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented.
Gail Davis
#16. If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
Dalai Lama
#17. The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation ...
Thomas Sowell
#18. A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person who says they are a Christian and are not sensitive to sin, it does not lead them to confession, a person who is that way is not a Christian.
Paul Washer
#19. During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
Iqbal Quadir
#20. Trying Will Not Lead Into Actions, You Have To Do It
Marieke Stoop
#21. God's care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself. JOHN 3:16
Dallas Willard
#22. Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. Discussions do not lead to definite conclusions. The Srutis are divided in opinion. And there is not a single Rishi whose opinions can be accepted as conclusive. Truth about religious matters is hidden in caves. Therefore that is the proper path which has been followed by great men.
Mahabharata
#24. As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.
Gustav Stresemann
#25. In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They
Stephen Leacock
#26. I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#27. Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
Abraham Kuyper
#29. The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.
Rabindranath Tagore
#30. One thing I am sure of is that when a long-standing desire gets fulfilled, it is certainly a moment of happiness but it may not lead us to eternal happiness, which lies in our heart, mind and thoughts.
Balroop Singh
#31. Call it dating if you like, but I didn't want her to be under the impression that it was anything serious. Not at that point in any case, it was more to be an experiment in human social relationships, one which might or might not lead to sex and or marriage.
Andrew James Pritchard
#32. Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.
Frederick Lenz
#33. We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
John Stott
#34. That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.
Robin Hobb
#35. We all have the same 24/7. What we do with our time becomes our priority. Choose what you do with your time and do not lead a life by default
Patt Hollinger Pickett
#36. Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
Joyce Carol Oates
#37. There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
Iggy Azalea
#38. Don't be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#39. One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.
Shane Claiborne
#40. Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
John Piper
#41. Destiny does not lead us in a straight line. As if to some silent music, people and events come into our lives. We are led this way or that and sometimes in a circle. Unknowingly we all move to life's silent tune. This is Destiny's Dance.
Rosemary Gard
Rosemary Gard
#42. All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#43. An abundance of good friends does not lead to better philosophy .
Karl Marx
#45. Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.
Erich Fromm
#46. You can not lead a child to a place of healing if you do not know the way yourself.
Karyn B. Purvis
#47. This was the pivotal insight of the Scientific Revolution: that the advancement of knowledge depends on current theories collapsing in the face of new insights and discoveries. In this model of progress, errors do not lead us away from the truth. Instead, they edge us incrementally toward it.
Kathryn Schulz
#48. If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.
Douglas Wilson
#50. When "doctrinal integrity" (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to be truth that does not lead to compassion for our neighbors cannot rightfully be called the truth.
Ronnie McBrayer
#51. There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.
Jessamyn West
#52. If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Silouan The Athonite
#53. When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
Plato
#54. A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.
Stephen King
#55. [Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
Abraham Lincoln
#56. Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-frogging innovations that more often that not lead capitalists to fetishise technological and organisational innovations as the answer to all their prayers
David Harvey
#57. Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh
#58. They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.
Thomas Watson
#59. A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
Fran Lebowitz
#60. The Cold War is a psychological game, that is dangerous and counterproductive in the extreme - it does not lead to a benevolent understanding among states - just hatred and discord, in this case, will be sown.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#61. Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.
Nancy Pelosi
#62. We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
Simon Sinek
#63. Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
Hafez
#64. Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way.
Bell Hooks
#65. It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.
Alan Tower Waterman
#66. While the realm of no materiality was a precious fruit of meditation, it did not help resolve the fundamental problem of birth and death, nor did it liberate one from all suffering and anxiety. It did not lead to total liberation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#67. I don't lead you and you must not lead me too, but we have each other, go forward together as brothers and sisters.
Khem Veasna
#68. Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
J.I. Packer
#69. There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives.
Audre Lorde
#70. The plague did not lead to Europe's economic collapse. Rather, Europe's currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
Douglas Rushkoff
#71. Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around.
Jeff Olson
#72. Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#73. You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.
Robertson Davies
#74. Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
Colman McCarthy
#75. One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
#76. I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#77. You may not lead by ordering, but you may lead by showing possibilities and the beauty of success.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.
Mitt Romney
#79. Our goal is transformed hearts that lead to transformed lives. Transformed lives do not lead to transformed hearts. Are you trackin' with that?
Matt Chandler
#80. What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
Martin Luther
#81. Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
Lars Feld
#82. You do not lead by hitting people over the head
that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#83. A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.
Tehyi Hsieh
#85. On Gandhi: Don't ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.
Shashi Tharoor
#86. Good deeds may not lead to heaven ... still do deeds that make you feel like you are in there already.
Palle Oswald
#87. Absence of problems
does not lead to happiness.
Dealing with them does.
J. Benson
#88. Your strength is given to you from God, Amanda," she had said. "He will not lead you anywhere that you should not be.
Sarah Price
#89. Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.
G. C. Berkouwer
#90. We are faced with choices every moment of our lives. Whatever choice we exercise must make us comfortable and at peace. Choices that are made out of fear and anxiety often do not lead to right action
Sasha Samy, Transcending Abuse & Betrayal.
Sasha Samy
#91. The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#92. Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.
Eric Holder
#93. When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.
Carly Fiorina
#94. Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.
Julian Barnes
#95. I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
Rufus Wainwright
#96. No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.
Vasily Smyslov
#97. Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.
Steven Machat
#98. The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen.
James E. Faust
#99. The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#100. The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
Jean Piaget
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