Final Quotes

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Success, Courage, Failure

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Peace, Truth

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Truth, Evil

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Made, Sense, Gun

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin

Thinking, Whole, Older

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Society, Stupidity, Guilty

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
Dalai Lama

Else, Far, Concerned

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Moment

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, Parents

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Person, Him, Give

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, True

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Children, Small, Same

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

Able, Greatness, Lies

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden

Success, Courage, Failure

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good, Bad, Happen

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Character, Person, Lies

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Mignon McLaughlin

Age, True, Woman

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

Work, Give, Through

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney

Sad, Blessed, Moment

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

Ignore, America, Cannot

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Single, Defeat, Confuse

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Soldier, Choice, Heavy

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust

Mind, Made, Decisions

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps

Respect, Him, Service

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant

Health, Great, Attention

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Jim Carrey

Work, Control, Whole

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto

Truth, Nothing, Whole

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Music, God, End

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