Top 100 Quotes About Completion
#1. I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.
Gordon Gee
#2. Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture. Tolkien gave Lewis a lens, a way of seeing things, which
Alister E. McGrath
#3. He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.
Timothy S. Lane
#4. I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools ... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
Paul Cezanne
#5. It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it to completion;
ours to offer what we can,
His to finish what we cannot.
St. Jerome
#6. God rested from all his work which he created to do/make. The last word, this last 'to do' is for us, we are the partners in the completion of creation, it's not done yet.
Dennis Prager
#7. If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
Nik Halik
#8. Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built,
Douglas Adams
#9. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.
Keith Miller
#10. I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.
Ann Brashares
#11. Rubbing a clit to completion and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles.
Karina Halle
#12. I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6
Beth Moore
#14. Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.
L. Tom Perry
#15. 48 Now we understand, also, that God is perfected in threes. Now, God is "perfected" in three. "Grace" is five. Seven is "completion," like the world.
William Branham
#16. There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.
Ryan Giggs
#17. It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.
Pete Sanders
#18. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
Herodotus
#19. The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.
Spencer Bachus
#20. This is the essence of travel, or at least travel taken to completion: it's not the change of scenery, or the new way of preparing lamb - it's you. You are lost to yourself, you don't know who will emerge from the pit.
Chris Colin
#21. I strongly believe the DREAM Act should require the completion of a degree.
Joe Manchin
#22. The end of a season is not the completion of a destiny.
Jamie Larbi
#23. Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.
Gary Zukav
#24. Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
Daniel Clowes
#25. Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#26. Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.
Lynn Dickey
#27. My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game.
Isaiah Thomas
#28. Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
Matthieu Ricard
#29. The road is long fro the project to its completion.
Moliere
#30. It can be also known as the Parkinson's law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." It means that if you give yourself 2 hours to do a work, it is likely that you will spend 2 hours. If you give yourself 3 hours for the same work, you will surely spend 3 hours.
Remy Roulier
#31. In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")
Peter Straub
#32. Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one's self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.
Emily Thorne
#33. The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Berthold Auerbach
#34. Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.
Karin Slaughter
#35. The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date.
Joel Osteen
#36. He leans into me and kisses me again. Harder this time. He tastes like eternity, and healing, and completion.
No one else could ever kiss me like this, of that I am positive.
I could breathe in him forever.
I could fall in love forever.
Jessica Park
#37. I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
Tobias Wolff
#38. That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.
Evelyn Waugh
#39. My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.
William A. Dembski
#40. Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
Brandi Carlile
#41. I was always hurtling headlong through the day, checking things off my to-do list, constantly picturing completion instead of calmly and carefully enjoying the process.
Dan Harris
#42. Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.
Alfie Kohn
#43. Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
John Ruskin
#44. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#45. I am still enjoying the successful completion of my PhD; taking time to relax, renew, and refocus.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#47. I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
C. C. H. Pounder
#48. The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process , that is by the completion of self-reflection , and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves
Jurgen Habermas
#49. [L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds.
John Climacus
#50. Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Octavio Paz
#51. A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.
David Graeber
#52. It was definitely finished, and for one moment the sadness of completion overtook the Hemulen.
Tove Jansson
#53. Barbarian
A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
Piers Anthony
#54. Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life ... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
David Deida
#55. Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.
Sterling W. Sill
#56. The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.
Arthur Fry
#58. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.
Mark Epstein
#59. With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#60. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Allan Bloom
#61. I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.
Jim Carrey
#62. I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
Aage Bohr
#63. Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen.
Horatius Bonar
#64. In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?
Rae Meadows
#65. The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.
William McFee
#66. Love proves its authenticity in fidelity, but reaches its completion in forgiveness.
Brennan Manning
#67. You don't have to be married to be whole. As a matter of fact a husband is an add-on, he is not the completion of the equation.
T.T. McClendon
#68. A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
Martin Luther
#69. Absolute prediction is completion ... is death!
Frank Herbert
#71. I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
Edvard Munch
#72. Children entering or in kindergarten will take the Level A exam, which has Pattern Completion and Reasoning by Analogy questions.
Testing Mom LLC
#73. She nodded her head in approval and hesitantly shut the book, breathing a reader's sigh. That wonderful inhale/exhale reaction one does after finishing a book that has somehow touched you. Completion. Inner peace. Separate peace.
Eric Arvin
#75. The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
Lawrence R. Klein
#76. It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.
Don DeLillo
#77. True Discipleship makes a man and woman a project or an portrait painting to completion
With a careful detail and awareness of every stroke of the brush until the vision comes to pass
Louis
#78. We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.
William J. Clinton
#79. A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.
Richard Bach
#80. They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back.
Chloe Thurlow
#81. He is the complete opposite of her, or maybe just a completion of her.
Anna Banks
#82. The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
Samuel Johnson
#83. She squeezed her thighs together, desperate for relief. Aiming for completion without doing something so deliberate as touching herself. Look ma, no hands!
Kate Meader
#84. You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.
Richard Proenneke
#86. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.
Elizabeth Lesser
#87. Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.
Soichiro Honda
#88. In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.
Edouard Leve
#89. Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.
Fernando J. Corbato
#90. Because everyone has a natural yearning for completion, we are able to change and recreate ourselves endlessly.
Ilchi Lee
#91. The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out!
Dionna L. Hayden
#92. I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.
Jon Spaihts
#93. Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.
Paula White
#94. Completion does not depend on
material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
#95. The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.
Aysha Taryam
#96. While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.
John Engler
#97. Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.
Pat Conroy
#98. Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
William Morris
#99. We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
Ed Wood
#100. Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It
Timothy Ferriss
