Finishing Quotes

Marketing is a race without a finishing line

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

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

I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.