Finals Quotes

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Forgiveness is the final form of love.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Love, Forgiveness, Philosophical

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• 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, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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  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, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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  Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

  Roger Babson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• After the final no there comes a yes
  And on that yes the future world depends.

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspirational, Teaching, Future

  "Harmonium". Book by Wallace Stevens, 1923.

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• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Soul, Faces

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.491, Penguin

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• The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

  Hannah Arendt

  Death, War, Simple

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• History passes the final judgment

  Sidney Poitier

  Judgment

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• There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Mistake, Taken, Learning

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• We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

  William O. Douglas

  Annoyed, Challenges, Needs

  "Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 12, 1972.

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• Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

  Alice Munro

  Memories, Writing, Anecdotes

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• Simplicity is the final achievement.

  Frederic Chopin

  Simplicity, Design, Achievement

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

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• Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

  Max Frisch

  Fate, Men, Dignity

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• I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Want, Way, Print

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• To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

  Geezer Butler

  Challenges, Albums, Would Be

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• The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Law, World, Moral

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.416, A&C Black

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• The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Support, West, Firsts

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• If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Data, Body, Might

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• I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

  Scott McCallum

  Government, Trying, Months

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• The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.

  Meir Kahane

  Israel, Hands, Guarantees That

  Meir Kahane (1995). “Listen world, listen Jew”, Publication of Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane

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• The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

  Bob Woodward

  Truth, Lying, Literature

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

  Simon van der Meer

  Examination, Gymnasiums, Sections

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