Top 100 Not An End Quotes
#1. People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#2. Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus
Adolf Hitler
#3. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Modest Mussorgsky
#4. My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Peter Singer
#5. And knowledge management is a means, not an end.
Bill Gates
#6. Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
Fidel Castro
#7. Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.
Sybil Marshall
#8. Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good ... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
Joseph Goebbels
#9. Greatness is an inherently dynamic process, not an end point. The moment you think of yourself as great, your slide toward mediocrity will have already begun.
James C. Collins
#11. Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.
Brooks Atkinson
#12. Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.
Jean Chretien
#13. Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success.
Romina Russell
#15. Retirement from Job does not mean retirement from life! It is the beginning not an end!
Ravi Samuel
#16. Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.
Frederick Lenz
#17. Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Thornton Wilder
#18. The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means - to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry.
Dennis Prager
#19. Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself
Stephen Harper
#20. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God,
A.W. Tozer
#21. Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.
Rudolf Virchow
#22. Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?
Kathleen Raine
#23. Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
Adolf Hitler
#24. An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
Peter Kreeft
#25. Social media is not an end in itself. It's just another tool to reach people.
Simon Mainwaring
#26. Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. You can't live an obedient life and miss an adventure. Following the commands of Christ is not just about behavior. Behavior modification is not an end in itself in the New Testament. Transformation is about knowing the truth and the truth setting you free.
Beth Moore
#28. To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.
Franz Rosenzweig
#29. Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#30. Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".
Murad S. Shah
#31. The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Seneca The Younger
#32. Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax.
Bauvard
#33. People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.
Jeffrey Tate
#34. People who seek only success rarely find it, because success is not an end, but a consequence.
Paulo Coelho
#35. If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness ...
Muhammad Asad
#36. Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#38. We're not an end-result operation. Our whole deal, why we're good, is because we're very, very focused on the process.
Mark Saltveit
#39. Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#41. I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.
Steve Coogan
#42. Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success
Binye Vincent
#43. Death is not an end but a doorway we walk through as automatically as we take our next breath.
James L. Garlow
#44. A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
Isabel Allende
#45. Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#46. DEATH NOT AN END ... ITS JUST A BEGINNING OF NEW LIFE WITH JESUS CHRIST ...
Dash
#47. This is not an end. It is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.
Erin Hunter
#48. Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.
John F. Carlson
#49. I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itself.
Shane Carruth
#50. Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.
Ayn Rand
#51. Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Thomas Browne
#52. Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.
Hyman Rickover
#53. Love is not a purpose, it's a paradox; it's not an end-goal, it's an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.
A.J. Darkholme
#54. Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
Zhuangzi
#55. Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#56. Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.
Edward Howard Griggs
#57. If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite.
Neal Stephenson
#58. As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself
Sunday Adelaja
#59. Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.
Charles Lindbergh
#60. The death of a man brings a stop to his life, but not an end to his destiny. When destiny is well fulfilled, impacts linger behind as at the time life goes to hide!
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
Thomas Merton
#63. Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
Felix Frankfurter
#64. Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Albert Einstein
#65. Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration
the secret alembics of vitality.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#66. Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
John Bolton
#67. The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.
William J. Brennan
#68. If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.
Lysa TerKeurst
#69. Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.
Narendra Modi
#70. It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
Thomas Edward Brown
#71. Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
John Sununu
#72. Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.
Barack Obama
#73. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
Ayn Rand
#76. Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
Billy Collins
#77. Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal.
Peace Pilgrim
#78. Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
David Crystal
#79. Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
Felix Frankfurter
#80. Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.
Eric Weiner
#81. The joy is in the journey, the struggle is part of the joy and the final destination is not an end but another beginning of another journey.
Kathy Boyd Fellure
#82. What was closure if not a clock? Not an end as everyone imagined, but a beginning.
Celeste Chaney
#83. Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.
Caroline Pratt
#84. Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
Robert A. Heinlein
#85. Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what he can get and an ice man will be the only bidder at the sale.
William Alfred Quayle
#86. Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.
Frederick Lenz
#87. I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.
Tony Dungy
#88. Lobe has not an end nor a beging, it does have ups and downs, but there will come a time where it seems that time stops and revolves around one person who you fall head over heals for you find there is peace and tranquility in the world.
Elizabeth Price
#91. Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute - and absolutely unknown - future.
James Carroll
#92. The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life
John Dewey
#93. Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Peter Gleick
#94. Anna, I only know this: when it is your turn to die - my turn, anyone's - when it is time for you to let go of one life and reach out for another, you will be left with no choice but to hurl yourself willingly into the mother arms of transfiguration. It's not an end. It's a beginning.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#95. In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.
John Edward Williams
#96. The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
Epicurus
#97. Shaking people up." Finally, art was for both of them not an end in itself but a way of achieving an ascetic renunciation of the world. "Art should be given the chance to phase itself out," Gould
Thomas Bernhard
#98. I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.
Dalai Lama
#99. Life is gifted to us not just to work, but to work in order to realize life's purpose. Work is not an end in itself, but a means to realize the end purpose of life.-RVM
R.v.m.
#100. Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
Sydney J. Harris
