Top 77 Finish Last Quotes
#1. You ever heard the phrase 'nice guys finish last'? It's true. Been true my whole life. So, maybe it'd be nice for me for a change, if someone thought I was worth fightin' for.
Lorelei James
#2. Nice people sometimes finish last but they are always the winners who take it all in the end.
Abigail George
#3. The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they'll finish last. You don't win the race by walking around the starting line saying 'I'm not going to win this race'.
Mitch Rowland
#5. Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons
#6. Good guys don't always finish last they just win a different race.
Cornelia Gibson
#7. Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
Evan Davis
#11. It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.
Leo Durocher
#12. Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
Adam Grant
#13. Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don't switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East.
Steve Capus
#14. Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher
#15. Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
Ken Blanchard
#16. Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. They say nice guys finish last. That may be true, if the only people you're nice to are the ones who constantly disrespect you.
Charles F. Glassman
#18. You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?"
"I guess I'll finish last.
Jalpa Williby
#19. If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.
Roger Crawford
#20. Nice guys may finish last, but in a courtroom they are king.
Kenneth Eade
#21. If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.
Edward Dyer
#22. It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
Mort Walker
#24. We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.
Matthew Cooper
#25. 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
#26. You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#27. I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'
Theo James
#28. Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.
Drew Curtis
#29. She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.
Steve Martin
#30. Have you ever been heartbroken to finish a book? Has a writer kept whispering in your ear long after the last page is turned?
Elizabeth Maguire
#31. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Kurt Vonnegut
#32. And where did he finish the last sentence he would ever begin on earth?
Stephen King
#33. I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
Robert Smith
#34. The Germans were still hunting Alek, trying to finish the job they'd started on his parents. Someone had to be on his side.
And, as Deryn had gradually admitted to herself these last few days, she didn't mind if that someone wound up being her.
Scott Westerfeld
#35. And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.
Libba Bray
#36. When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke.
Drake
#37. The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry Pratchett
#38. You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party!
Emilie De Ravin
#39. I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.
Jeet Banerjee
#40. It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.
Jack Leach
#41. I would've blown away every last runner that time. Because at the end of this finish line wasn't a trophy - it was Macallan.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#42. No nerve, hey? Not half a man! ... Buster Jack, why don't you finish game? Make up for your low-down tricks. At the last try to be worthy of your dad. In his day he was a real man ... Let him have the consolation that you faced Hell-Bent Wade an' died in your boots!
Zane Grey
#43. The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
Derek Jeter
#44. I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
Todd Rundgren
#45. I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.
Eric Burdon
#46. The guy said, "Hop in the back." He craned around in his seat and batted stray items aside. Reacher opened the door and slid in and used his hip to finish the job. He closed the door and the woman hit the gas and they took off, cruising easy through the last thirty-some miles of America.
Lee Child
#47. If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.
Andy Weir
#48. And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.
Lizz Winstead
#49. What motivates people to be late? ... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.
Harvey MacKay
#50. He didn't miss them. He didn't miss any of his life, really, especially the last year. Time had simply been a bookmark. Something that held his place while he waited to finish the story.
Mary Lindsey
#51. Tomorrow, he told himself. Tomorrow he would face Weep, and his duty, and the nightmares that stalked him. Somehow, he would find the courage to finish what he had started fifteen years ago, and free his people from this last vestige of their long torment.
Even if he could never free himself.
Laini Taylor
#52. The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
Lance Armstrong
#53. I'm going to finish off the last of Three's Company tonight. Frankly, I like Mr. Furley more than the Ropers.
Andy Weir
#54. What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu
Tad Williams
#56. In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
Jill Lepore
#57. That's right! Run! Because if you don't, that fire is just waiting to finish the job off!" When the last one disappears from view, I turn and start walking back towards the hills. I need to find my friends.
Pittacus Lore
#58. It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
Fernando Alonso
#60. All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one ... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.
Gina Greenlee
#62. I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron
#63. I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
Daniel Craig
#64. Each grape she pulled off grew back again on the cluster. In the dream it was evident that the girl had spent many years at that infinite window trying to finish the cluster, and was in no hurry to so because she knew that in the last grape lay death.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#65. It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
Peter O'Toole
#66. 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
#67. The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group.
Guan Tianlang
#68. I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.
Jackie French
#69. Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.
Frederick Buechner
#70. Thailand's been good. Mike Swick and his camp there have been awesome. I initially went there on the 12th week and was going to finish my camp here for the last eight weeks but instead I just stayed the whole time.
Soa Palelei
#71. I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish.
Jimmie Johnson
#72. My name is Felicia au ... " I feint a whip at her face. She brings her blade up, and Victra goes diagonal and impales her at the belly button. I finish her off with a neat decapitation. "Bye, Felicia." Victra spits, turning to the last Praetorian.
Pierce Brown
#73. Don't U want someone to complete you the way Mini-Me completed Dr. Evil? Someone who shares the same tastes in music food who will finish
... my sentences? The last thing I need is someone stealing the punch lines to all my jokes.
Teresa Medeiros
#74. Life is like a race, whenever I found a finish line, I lose, bcoz I'm last.. :(
Rahul R Singh
#75. Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.
Frederick Seidel
#76. When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
Nora Ephron
#77. Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.
Louis Zamperini
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