Quotes on Ends

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.