To finish first, you must first finish. — Rick Mears
If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph. — Emile Gruppe
It's not where you start but where you finish. — April Heinrichs
The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end. — Genghis Khan
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
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
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
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder. — Derek Jeter
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
To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths. — Amby Burfoot
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
Short Finished 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
Finished Image Quotes
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years. — Beatrix Potter
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
A finished person is a boring person. — Anna Quindlen
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. — Evan Davis
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. — Euripides
As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
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.
It's 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
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
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
Education isn't something you can finish.
You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By Me" was really. — Ben E. King
It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish. — Michael Jordan
You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line. — Mike D'Antoni
It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1. — Marcel Hirscher
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there. — Stana Katic
Obviously, everybody wants to see Tiger [Woods] come back, but I think it's in a really good place with how much talent is out there and the exciting finishes you have, week in, week out. — Stephen Curry
You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished. — Dave Eggers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. — Richard M. Nixon
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
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
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
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche
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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