Quotes of Finishing - somelinesforyou

“ Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all. ”

- Madonna

“ We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. ”

- David Allen

“ But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. ”

- Paul Wiener

“ The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school! ”

- Gene Tierney

“ Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. ”

- Will Rogers

“ I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing. ”

- Dean Cain

“ Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ”

- Oscar Arias

“ The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ”

- Greg Anderson

“ Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ”

- Euripides

“ Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. ”

- Peter Gabriel

“ Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ”

- Truman Capote

“ Minerva House… was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time… ”

- Andy Rooney

“ She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ Men's fashions all start as sports clothes and progress to the great occasions of state. The tail coat, which started out as a hunting coat, is just finishing such a journey. The track suit is just beginning one. ”

- Angus McGill

“ I'm in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. It's always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, they're going to carry me off a stage. ”

- Angela Lansbury

“ Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino. ”

- C. David Heymann

“ A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it. ”

- South

“ When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it — a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand — as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art. ”

- Marc Chagall

“ She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. ”

- Jean Rhys

“ Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate… ”

- Olive Schreiner
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