You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist. - Michael Kroft
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau
Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.
No Matter what path in Life you take... It's up to you to Finish the Journey - Frederick E. Owen Jr.
Life's true test of perseverance is continuing to run after learning that the finish line is only the start to a new race. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. - Robert Byrne
Most of the so-called experts on a prime time news-hour are so talented that by the time they finish their discussion on one problem without finding its solution, they have another topic of the same national importance ready to merely debate upon to entertain the audience of another channel. - Anuj Somany
By the grace of God, I will finish what I have started. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. - Sir Winston Churchill
Character is a course, finish it. - Mac Canoza
Whatever you do, do not finish the hard work of developing your gifts only to leave it unexpressed. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
A path full of potholes must be traveled slowly, but there's no reason you can't finish the journey. - Faydra D. Fields
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. - John Eldredge
Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you. - Amit Kalantri
Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line. - John C. Maxwell
Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list. - Kellie Elmore
My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion. - Petra Kidd
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task. - Idries Shah
There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce. - Mark Twain
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. - George Bernard Shaw
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. - Oprah Winfrey
Nice guys finish last. - Leo Durocher
Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you’re still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. - Steve Maraboli
Want to dance? We have music this time. And I don't have to punch you when we finish. - Amy Tintera
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. - Abraham Lincoln
Now when you say staring, are you including yourself in this assessment? I recall you taking in the view on several occasions.""For the last time, I was not staring at you." I was a terrible liar. "Now, if you're done, I'd like to finish asking my question. - Stacey O'Neale
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that. - Christopher Hitchens
Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???You were in their trap... - Deyth Banger
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini) - Winston S. Churchill
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. - Gabriel García Márquez
Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. - Steve Maraboli
It’s not how you start that’s important, but how you finish! - Jim George
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish. - Don Roff
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely... - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. - Annie F. Downs
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. - Nancy Etchemendy
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. - Evan Davis
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. - Abraham Lincoln
It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. - Clifford Cohen
I had no time to hate, becauseThe grave would hinder me,And life was not so ample ICould finish enmity.Nor had I time to love, but sinceSome industry must be,The little toil of love, I thought,Was large enough for me. - Emily Dickinson
WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride. - Ambrose Bierce
Where you start is not as important as where you finish. - Zig Ziglar
The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another. - Kira Hawke
Don’t waste a minute fretting over the infinite destructive possibilities of The Singularity. Think of all the fun we’re going to have along the way! It will all be one glorious adventure, start to finish! - Richard Long
Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs. - David Brooks
Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line. - Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't say yes until I finish talking.
Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself. - A.D. Posey
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. - Neil Gaiman
Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all. - Matshona Dhliwayo
My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom. - Shannon Celebi
Those who refuse to grow, those who only finish school and call it quits regret through life. - Sunday Adelaja
Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence. - Amit Kalantri
Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you`ve said; after marriage, he`ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. - Helen Rowland
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish! - Jim George
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it. - David Morrell
Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this.If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your head that says Are you kidding? No one is going to want to read this drivel and keep on going. You’re going to revise and revise and then revise again anyway. - Jamie Freveletti
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand. - George Eliot
If you don't have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task. - Debasish Mridha
When God calls you to build 100 castles on earth and you built 98, take the 99th as if it's the begining of your work and work hard to finish the race with all excellence. Go the extra mile! - Israelmore Ayivor
We are best friends.Always remember I will pick you up...after I finish laughing. - Rachel Isnaeni
Life is like a race, whenever I found a finish line, I lose, bcoz I'm last.. :( - Rahul R Singh
You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come! - Kemi Sogunle
You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. - Tom Winton
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. - Mark Twain
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To aspire is to go back to the start of the journey when you're one lap away from the finish line, we have to begin with the end in mind and dig for for the opium goals. - Goitsemang Mvula
Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. - Alice McCall
Ninja Mom's are graced to finish the raise set before them! - Anna M. Aquino
Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish. - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. - Willard Van Orman Quine
It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation; but within three days He cut His schedule in half to save you. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
The Holy Spirit will always point people to the finish work of Jesus - John Paul Warren
I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, 'Wow.' - Richelle E. Goodrich
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. - Abraham Lincoln
Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line. - Keith Hammond
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. - Don Roff
Full of intrigue, tangled pasts, and raw emotions, [Gambling On A Secret by Sara Walter Ellwood] is guaranteed to keep you turning pages from start to finish and then wishing for one more chapter! - Carolyn Brown
the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark - Leatha Kendrick
SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum. - Toni Sorenson
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. - J. R. R. Tolkien
Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3 - Lecrae Moore
It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back. - H.G. Bissinger
Why to be in this room?If I was smart... I won't stay in this room and I will move in a room where people are more clever than me... but If it's easy as possibility... I want without a trouble to finish school. - Deyth Banger
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. - Karen Blixen
Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting. - Andrzej Sapkowski
Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line. - Prerna Kumar
It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book... - Deyth Banger
Once you start something, finish it. Never give up... - Kenny Wayne Fields
Every good love story has a start and a finish. What matters is what happens in the middle. - Suzette R. Hinton
Life is marathon, not a sprint. It is a race we are all guaranteed to finish, so run wisely. - James North
I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd. - Deyth Banger
There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality. - Nikki Rowe
Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish. - Mo
Computer are incredible coded, they fascinating me... as for sex... I don't need it, there is pornography so much that I won't finish watching... so far I won't...live so much on this planet to check out everything. - Deyth Banger
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish. - Markus Zusak
Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. - Willard Van Orman Quine
Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape. - Toni Sorenson
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky
ING is ending for something which continue and continue...So Morning - Continue - Start AfterNoon - The Middle - Almost finish Night - The ENd - Finish - Deyth Banger
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams. - Jon Stewart
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. - Sir Winston Churchill
make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on! - oladosu feyikogbon
The best year so far as for me when I am a children it's when I finish school and start doing something else which is more useful... Games are useful, aren't they?Facts also, aren't they?... Aren't they? - Deyth Banger