Best Finishing Thoughts
249 Finishing quotes by 223 unique authors
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Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you…
— Joyce Meyer
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
— Carroll O'Connor
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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…
— Will Rogers
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of…
— James Surowiecki
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There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the…
— Gene Tierney
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I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.
— Jenna Ushkowitz
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of…
— Carter G. Woodson
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We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having…
— Judith Wright
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
— Felicia Day
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Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather…
— Beverly Lewis
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
— Ernest Hemingway
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In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep…
— Douglas Coupland
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Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.
— Regina Doman
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I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall,…
— Eoin Colfer
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A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys…
— C.S. Lewis
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
— Machado de Assis
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So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold.…
— Clive Barker
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This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually…
— Sarah Dessen
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I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a…
— Richard Paul Evans
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Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day…
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat…
— Janet Evanovich
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