Top 490 Ultimately Quotes

It’s my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel’s aesthetic facade.
Manuel Puig
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
Freda Adler
If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.
Chris Evans
There’s sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk’s burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
There is a mutual respect that exists between coaches and players, and ultimately, it’s about us trying to help them reach their highest potential.
Sean McVay
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Henry S. Haskins
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
Julia Stiles
You don’t have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it’s down to you. Ultimately, that’s what every driver wants.
Bobby Rahal
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
John Perkins
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
Ultimately, political order does not generate itself.

Ultimately, political order does not generate itself.
Roger Scruton
It is people’s willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
Ivan Krastev
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it’s exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.
Michio Kaku
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
Tommy Franks
If you’re happy, ultimately, that’s all that matters.
Brendan Rodgers
No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what’s hot is a guy who doesn’t have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.
Daniela Ruah
Even if some days I feel like I’m ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I’ve ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.
Ali Landry
Every actor I ever meet goes, ‘Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,’ but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.
Jason Schwartzman
Because if you’ve got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan
I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.
Marissa Mayer
I think that God will provide opportunities and people and experiences, and everything we need to date and ultimately to find the one.
Henry Cloud
I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that’s ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.
Tunde Adebimpe
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.
Lawrence M. Krauss
It’s the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don’t know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?
Rachel McAdams
We’re the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn’t stay in the caves, and we haven’t stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we’re all about.
Jason Silva
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terry Waite
I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I’m doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.
Carson Kressley
Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people’s lives improve.
Li Keqiang
Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
James D. Watson
Ultimately, the bread and butter of McDonald’s is delivering great service, great quality food, at affordable prices day in and day out.
Steve Easterbrook
The attorney doesn’t decide what to do; the client ultimately decides what to do.
Michael Avenatti
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
Prince
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of cohabitates in the same fishbowl is ultimately a bigger part of the story than people outside of the fishbowl really know.
Mark Leibovich
Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.
Bill Hicks
Ultimately, if I’m really moved by something, it’s going to go on the record and that’s that.
Duncan Sheik
At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.
Philipp Meyer
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don’t know it at the time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The essays are different because ultimately it’s things I’m interested in, and I’m really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
Chuck Klosterman
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention – I’m like the Madonna of photography.
Mario Testino
Every day is a new day, and ultimately, I have to figure out what works each day.
Nathan Chen
Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what’s a franchise.
Nina Jacobson
They’re after one world religion and one world government. That’s why they’ve attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.
Hutton Gibson
I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
Barack Obama
Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God’s purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.
Virginia Postrel
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
Adam McKay
After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
Leon Panetta
It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is ‘Buffalo ’66,’ which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It’s about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.
Jim Sturgess
It’s really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
Carson Kressley
I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn’t. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.
Justin Trudeau
In my mind, if anyone can save the world from destroying itself, it will be the creative minds: the thinkers, the artists and the avant-garde trailblazers that will ultimately bring down the whole matrix of untruth and set mankind on a lesser destructive and more spiritual path.
Bez
Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small – because remember it’s the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains.
Cory Booker
I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.
Katherine Heigl
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
Ravi Zacharias
Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it’s popular in that way.
Babyface
I think that ultimately – as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art – I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what’s more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.
Paul Stanley
If you’re naturally a certain size, I think it suits you and you can see that. There’s no point in trying to conform for the sake of it. People are meant to be different shapes, and their different shapes are so interesting and, ultimately, why people fall in love with them.
Miranda Hart
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn’t pay for itself – particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.
Douglas Rushkoff