The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Franz Kline

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
Jenny Shipley

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
Matt Lauer

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg

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

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.
Henry Chadwick

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record.
Regina Spektor

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
Christian Bale

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
Julius Wellhausen

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
Ann Coulter

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Gabriel Lippmann

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
Josiah Strong

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
Muhammed Iqbal

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

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
Henry A. Wallace

There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.
Ernest Thompson Seton

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
Rudolf Bing