Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. — Neil Gaiman
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. — Henry David Thoreau
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. — Jim Rohn
It's not where you start but where you finish. — April Heinrichs
A finished person is a boring person. — Anna Quindlen
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The next point -- that's all you must think about. — Rod Laver
One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . — George Leigh Mallory
Short Finish Quotes
When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other. — Ibn Taymiyyah
There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher. — Usain Bolt
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards. — Tablo
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour
It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you. — Rihanna
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is. — Garry Shandling
Finish Image Quotes
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years. — Beatrix Potter
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. — Evan Davis
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. — Euripides
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish. — Ma Jian
I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there. — LeBron James
Be willing to walk alone. Many who started with you won't finish with you.
Fight To The Finish Quotes
I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish. — Eamonn Ceannt
You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you dont have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when youve finished, nothings changed. Youve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity. — Rafael Nadal
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. — Unknown
Education isn't something you can finish.
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. — Henry David Thoreau
The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days. — Jack Johnson
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. — Gunter Grass
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. — David Millar
I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end. — Mitch Hedberg
In that glorious day when we stand before our beloved Savior to report what we have done with His name, may we be able to declare: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. I have honored Thy name. — Mervyn B. Arnold
For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies. — Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Life Finish Quotes
I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion. — Mother Angelica
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life — Sayings
The limit is the sky, and I live on cloud. And I recognize my nemesis gon try, to put a finish in my shine. But pussy we'll hurt you, life in the power circle. — Kendrick Lamar
Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other — Marc Mero
Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses. — Tom Platz
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. — Johannes Brahms
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. — Daniel Gilbert
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. — Paul Valery
Finish Line Quotes
I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape when I finish the rhyme. — Rakim
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche
I'm different than most people...when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line — David Goggins
Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line. — Meb Keflezighi
God is on your side. We already at the finish line. Anything you put your mind to, anything you want to accomplish ,you put your faith in God's hands you can do it. — Puff Daddy
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? — Bill Gates
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts. — Ralph Boston
As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. — Alice McCall
Start And Finish Quotes
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare. — Peter Brook
I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could. — Jake Paul
Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off. — Joyce Meyer
Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way. — John Bevere
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. — Woody Allen
I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody got done so I could finish what they left. — Chris LeDoux
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. — Maya Lin
We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran. — Wesley Clark
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime. — Kevin Smith
And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning. — Hunter S. Thompson
Finish Strong Quotes
If I fail, I try again, and again, and again — Nick Vujicic
My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong. — James Dobson
It’s just been fantastic, from start to finish… I’m just truly elated, just the smells of Earth are so strong, it’s wonderful to be back… to feel the fresh air. — Tim Peake
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. — David
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future. — Francois FeNelon
Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here. — Jim Benton
If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If YOU fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are you going to finish strong? — Nick Vujicic
Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started. — John Fante
I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong! — Eric Thomas
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched. — Victor Hugo
How You Finish Quotes
Part of the process of letting go is releasing any thoughts of how you or your piece will be received. When making art, the audience comes last. Let’s not consider how a piece will be received or a release strategy until the work is finished and we love it. — Rick Rubin
Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish. — Herman Edwards
Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.' — Ryan Reynolds
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter. — B. C. Forbes
The more you realize, the more you realize how much there is to realize and, at the same time, how much you realize that there is nothing to realize. So, it's an enormous job, not something that is going to be finished in this lifetime. — Tenzin Palmo
It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter. — Robert D. Hales
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love? — Jackson Pollock
How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life. — Stephen King
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster. — Jimmy Buffett
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? — George Balanchine
Paper Finish Quotes
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911) — Ernest Rutherford
In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it. — Jeannette Walls
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long. — Iyanla Vanzant
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. — Margaret Haddix
A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research, actually everything. — Sasa Stanisic
Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. — Nia Long
Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I have a lot to say and feel. I want to process those and write it down on paper and put my hands on the keyboard before they become the past. — Angela Aki
I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better. — Milton Jones
If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it. — Nicholas Sparks
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship. — Fidel Castro
Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest. — Baron de Montesquieu
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. — Carlos Castaneda
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish. — Billy Mills
Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. When you find your why you'll find your way. When you develop your will you will embark on your way. Many people start; few people finish. Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams. — John C. Maxwell
It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it to completion;
ours to offer what we can,
His to finish what we cannot. — St. Jerome
When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne...Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption. — Kenneth Copeland
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish. — Chogyam Trungpa
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people. — El Lissitzky
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. — Ronald Reagan
Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance. — Judah Smith
Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress. — Christian Dior
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