Top 65 Finish The Race Quotes
#1. With patience, you will finish the race set before you
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.
Michael Phelps
#3. Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.
Tiger Woods
#4. 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
#5. Don't cease till your rivals turn to allies, failures to lessons; your liabilities to assets, pains to joy. You're able to finish the race!
Assegid Habtewold
#7. To finish the race first, you must first finish the race.
Garth Stein
#8. Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
Barack Obama
#9. The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
Danica Patrick
#10. The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.
Garth Stein
#11. Beginnings are easy, the thing is to finish the race
Vitor Belfort
#12. My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic
John Stephen Akhwari
#13. The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
Kristin Hannah
#14. In the technology sector failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end. If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant.
Jacquie McNish
#15. Anyone can start a race, but not everyone crosses the finish line. Certainly, not everyone wins the race.
Paul Silway
#16. Whilst you have not yet reached the finishing line, work hard with diligence and tenacity!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. 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
#18. It depends what competition you are in. When you go to the big meets it's all about who touches in first. You've got to get into that race and into that frame of mind so that you're ready to race and you're ready to work hard and finish first.
Jazmin Carlin
#19. Not one person can afford your dream; the execution of it is too expensive.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#20. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.
Dean Goodman
#21. That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.
Jack Lovelock
#23. He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness.
John Green
#24. Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race
Matt Ridley
#25. But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line?
Orson Scott Card
#26. 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
#27. Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.
John Bevere
#28. At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.
Lorraine Moller
#29. Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
#30. I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end. - Paul
John Piper
#31. The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Joe Henderson
#32. The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.
Garth Stein
#33. Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,
Hugo Chavez
#34. Sweetheart, this is not a race to the finish line. It's you and me, spending time together and getting to know each other better. Just that simple.
Brey King
#35. Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.
Haruki Murakami
#36. 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
#37. I'm different than most people ... when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line
David Goggins
#38. There's more to marathon day than running long. Learning how your body reacts to the early alarm, light breakfast and warm-up is key. Minimize surprises come race day. Run long the same time of day as the race.
Gina Greenlee
#39. Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.
Ron Hill
#40. Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.
Steve Erickson
#42. At the end of the race nobody really cares about how you started, so stay laser focused and finish strong. Get ready to proclaim "I did it!
Farshad Asl
#43. 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
#44. It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
Harry S. Truman
#45. No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.
John Kessel
#46. It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.
Robert D. Hales
#47. The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.
William Zinsser
#48. If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.
Roger Crawford
#49. A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
Don Roff
#50. Yeah, our car was really good even after the crash. I told you before the race that if we had good track position at the end I thought we could finish good. It was a really good day for our Linksys car. Just a fun day racing.
Jamie McMurray
#51. One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
L'Wren Scott
#52. After shedding only as much clothing as required, I climbed onto his lap and rode him like I was running a race and the finish line was in sight.
Trina M. Lee
#53. Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#54. Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other
Marc Mero
#55. When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.
Larry McMurtry
#56. Think about the change that occurred in the 1500m at Christchurch. The 1500m was usually a slow race and then a sprint [at the finish]. But in 1974 I changed that from the beginning to the end. And not many people have thought about that.
Filbert Bayi
#57. I don't know what forever is, April. I don't even want to think about the finish line while I'm in the race, because that's the end, and I don't want this to end. If that means forever, then yeah.
Dannika Dark
#59. Motivation starts the race, but self-discipline ultimately crosses the finish line.
Steve Pavlina
#60. Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
Catherine Martin
#61. Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.
David Letterman
#62. Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way.
Jen Stephens
#63. When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.
Maurice Greene
#64. Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206
Garth Stein
#65. During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.
Akiane Kramarik
