Top 56 Finish What You've Started Quotes
#1. [Discipline i]t's the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you've started.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
#2. My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.
Jessica Pare
#3. The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.
Geena Davis
#4. My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.
Andrew Skurka
#5. Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.
Joyce Meyer
#6. I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.
Peter MacKay
#7. It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.
Mikhail Lermontov
#9. You want people to take it seriously, but most people are still going to act like it's just some dumb thing you're doing and ask you about it in the way people do when they don't think you're ever going to finish what you started.
Lauren Barnholdt
#10. Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.
Zig Ziglar
#11. If you think you are a filmmaker ... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.
Tamra Davis
#12. I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that ... thing.'
Kurt Angle
#13. Show me, Grandfather, and I will finish what you started. Trembling
Alan Dean Foster
#14. Fuck that shit, I told them, I've started this and I'm going to finish it.
Margaret Atwood
#15. Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get started.
Billy Collins
#16. I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
John Otway
#17. And he never quit in the middle of something. If he started a job, he'd finish it. It was almost like a moral thing for him. He was what you'd call extremely ethical. He set pretty high standards for himself.
Jon Krakauer
#19. The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.
Yogi Berra
#20. I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.
Salman Rushdie
#21. I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
Ray Lewis
#22. She pressed her lips together and held his gaze, then shook her head as if all out of arguments. "You're really going to do it then. You're going to drive an asteroid to Earth. You're going to be the bad guy who kills everyone. You're actually going to finish what the Icefall started.
Walt Stone
#23. If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.
Kim Harrison
#25. 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
#26. The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.
Steven Adler
#27. What else do you want to do to me?" Jace asked, and Clint smiled. "That's a wicked look you've got going on."
"Just remember, you're the one who asked for it."
"It was merely a conversation starter."
"Consider it started. Now I'm going to finish it.
S.E. Jakes
#28. Dinner is just the beginning. I want to touch you," he says, his voice low and commanding. "I want to run my hands over every inch of you. I want you wet for me. I want to finish what we started, Ms. Fairchild. I want to make you come.
J. Kenner
#29. I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
Harmony Korine
#30. Not an agent kiss, not anything remotely resembling a peck-on-the-cheek kiss, but a let's-get-started kiss. One that even in hardened, love-tired Los Angeles had a better-than-even shot of producing a happy finish
Diana Dempsey
#31. The Best and Right thing to do in Life, is Give a Person a Chance to finish what they started.
Joan Ambu
#32. No-not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That's usually my only goal-to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.
David Eugene Edwards
#34. I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes.
Gregor Collins
#35. Together, we're going to finish the job we started.
Barack Obama
#36. Stand up and finish what you started
Bob Harper
#37. 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
#38. It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.
Eddie Harris
#39. I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
Steven Pressfield
#40. Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.
Julie Kagawa
#41. It's a sure thing that you will not finish if you don't start. The most difficult part of any job is getting started.
Napoleon Hill
#42. My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.
Antony Hegarty
#43. You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.
Mike Webster
#44. Now finish what you started or I'll show you how mean I can be." My eyes drifted down her body. "I do like that tight little ass of yours."
"You wouldn't."
"You should know better by now.
Teresa Mummert
#45. Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.
Kevin Smith
#46. The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.
Adolf Hitler
#47. The Epic?" Raylynn raised her eyebrows. "You actually read through it?" "Of course." Vhalla couldn't fathom who wouldn't finish a book once they'd started.
Elise Kova
#48. Not everyone who started with you will finish with you. Be willing to go without them if you have to.
Tony Gaskins
#49. Ben: 'Just...finish it.'
Caedus: 'Finish it? Ben, we're just getting started.'
--Ben Skywalker and Darth Caedus
Troy Denning
#50. What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.
Michael Ende
#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. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
Holly Lisle
#53. It's like what those cheesy action-movie heros always say before they finish taking out the bad guys: I started this, and I'm going to finish it. Except even in the movie of my own life, I've never been the heroine. I've never been Action Girl. I've only ever been Kristen's supporting character.
Hannah Harrington
#54. We started this thing together. That's how we're going to finish it.
Veronica Rossi
#55. Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.
John Fante
#56. I feel like he inherited one of the worst economies than any president has ever, ever inherited. I have met Mr. Obama, President Obama. I supported him in his first campaign, and I feel that he deserves four more years to finish up the job that he started.
Vivica A. Fox
