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End Quotes

How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.

This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

Quotes by Robert Lowell

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Quotes by Robert Lowell

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Quotes by Robert Lloyd

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.

Quotes by Robert Kubica

Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate's career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle - and out of a sense of fairness - many pirate crews...

Quotes by Robert Kurson

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I...

Quotes by Robert Lanza

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

Quotes by Robert Kagan

Lots of people have plenty of ideas; lots of people have plenty of money, but in the end, if you want to turn that money into profit, you have to do it through others.

Quotes by Robert J. Fisher

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Quotes by Robert Herrick

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Quotes by Robert Herrick

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

Quotes by Robert Higgs

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Quotes by Robert H. Schuller

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Quotes by Robert Half

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system...

Quotes by Robert Gibbs

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

Quotes by Robert Fripp

Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a...

Quotes by Robert Edwards

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

Quotes by Robert Falcon Scott

If the EU and the US pressured Israel for change and forced the end of the blockade, we might get somewhere. That pressure should also come culturally, with from without and within.

Quotes by Robert Del Naja

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection say about responsibility and consciousness?
One quote reflects on the duty felt by those "involved in the receiving end of the oppression," tying awareness to responsibility. For more thought-provoking lines, see our Ending collection.
Is there a quote comparing war to a game of chess?
Yes - one quote describes how, for Germany, "the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary." Browse more in our End Result section.
Does the collection include personal wartime memories?
One quote recalls losing a home in 1943 and moving to "a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps," describing crowded conditions there by war's end.
Is there a lighter quote about being spared hardship?
Yes - one quote notes, somewhat wryly, "I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick." For more on outcomes and consequences, see our End Product page.
Are these quotes mostly about endings in a literal sense?
They use "end" in several ways - from the ending of a conflict to being on the receiving end of something difficult. Explore more in our End Of The World collection.

One entry shifts to social conscience, describing a felt duty toward those on whom oppression falls hardest. Readers interested in closure themes can also browse Ending quotes or End Of The World quotes for a more dramatic angle.