Top 100 Quotes About Finish Line
#1. 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
#2. Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such a power over you. Because if you're always racing against their standards, then what's the point of reaching a useless finish line?
Kale Lawrence
#3. I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.
Asafa Powell
#4. The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.
Stirling Moss
#5. Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#6. You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.
Mike D'Antoni
#7. We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.
Joe Biden
#8. 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
#10. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
Ferdinand Porsche
#11. As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#12. We don't stop, not even when we reach the finish line. It's a journey for life, Neve.
Sarra Manning
#13. For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line
Bill Ford
#14. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
Siri Hustvedt
#15. Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else's head and it's just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.
Sanjo Jendayi
#16. Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
Rihanna
#17. We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
Joe Biden
#18. When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.
Rick Majerus
#19. Don't worry about the finish line. Don't question what you're doing. Just quiet your mind and keep up the pace.
Dana Reinhardt
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.
Robert Frost
#23. You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.
Chael Sonnen
#24. 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
#25. The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.
John Tesh
#26. You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.
Phil McGraw
#28. If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Richard M. DeVos
#29. There will always be someone trying to beat you first in line, and also the finish line.
Anthony Liccione
#30. The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.
William Zinsser
#31. In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.
Mario Andretti
#32. A runner can never see the finish line in the middle of a marathon,
Henry Cloud
#33. In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
Julian Castro
#34. Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing"
"Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.
Donna VanLiere
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I knew not everyone would be intact at the finish line.
J.J. McAvoy
#38. There's no finish line. That's a big pill for people to swallow, Every single day for the rest of your life, you are going to have to make better food choices, and move around a bit more.
Bob Harper
#39. When you begin with the finish line in mind, you miss all the fun stuff along the way. The better approach is to tweak and grow, tweak and grow.
Sophia Amoruso
#40. If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles.
Steve Maraboli
#41. History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.
Alice McCall
#43. Winning does not always mean coming in first ... real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.
Apolo Ohno
#44. I want to be your motherfucking checkered flag, Rylee. Your pace car to lead you through tough times, your pit stop when you need a break, your start line, your finish line, your goddamn victory lane.
K. Bromberg
#45. I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.
Prabal Gurung
#46. As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.
Christy Hall
#47. In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#48. Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
Ralph Boston
#49. If you don't discover God's dreams, you'll either waste your life running in wrong races and crossing wrong finish lines or, like many people, have no finish line at all.
Dutch Sheets
#50. I'd been rushing to a finish line, and I'd failed to enjoy the run along the way.
Kerry Lonsdale
#51. Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don't be afraid to walk backwards.
Tablo
#52. The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner.
Susan Wingate
#53. People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.
Phil McGraw
#54. We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
Joe Biden
#55. Here is the start, there is the finish line. Between that, you have to run.
Jeff Galloway
#56. You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.
Gwen Jorgensen
#57. Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.
Dan Waldschmidt
#58. Happiness can't be bottled. It can't be smoked, swallowed, shot or ejaculated. And there is no end game: you never cross the finish line and are suddenly happy. Even when all your wildest dreams come true, you still pursue happiness.
Kevin Smith
#59. Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life
Pharrell Williams
#60. Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#61. Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.
John C. Maxwell
#62. If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line
Carrie Jones
#63. A deadline is a finish line. Don't stop 'til the door shuts in your face!
Raven Moore
#64. They are the fuga bidone, Christopher. They broke away. They're too far
ahead to reel in," Luca whispered, his voice breaking into the wind that licked
the mountain top. "We are the peloton."
"We'll see them again at the finish line.
P.D. Singer
#65. Mount Batten jumped up from his chair and ran yelling across the living room. He broke through the yellow crime scene tape across the front door like a finish line and kept on running. Sharon
Tim Dorsey
#66. One word at a time, makes a novel at the finish line."
- Vik Tory Arch
Vik Tory Arch
#67. Life is like a race, whenever I found a finish line, I lose, bcoz I'm last.. :(
Rahul R Singh
#68. Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
Howard Schultz
#69. I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
Padma Lakshmi
#70. I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me ... This is my new starting line.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#71. Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.
Amy Poehler
#72. Yes, I thought, and therein was the paradox: like a runner crossing the finish line only to collapse, without that duty to care for the ill pushing me forward, I became an invalid
Paul Kalanithi
#73. I was used to feeling like I was never gonna see myself at the finish line.
Hanging on to parts of me, hanging on at all. I was used to seeing no future in my sight line.
Sara Quin
#74. You remember what you told me, Mom? That there are no medals for the completion of a good life? I've been thinking about that. About how no one wins. Like you said, it's impossible to win, because the finish line is death.
J.A. Konrath
#75. As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.
Johnny Depp
#76. 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
#77. I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.
Jim Courier
#78. The Color Purple received four Tony nominations; the play is highly looked at and it's a must see for everyone. I just want to carry on what Jennifer Hudson has done and help the team get to the finish line.
Heather Headley
#79. It's a bit like running a marathon, isn't it? It's only when you reach the finish line that you have time to collapse.
Lucinda Riley
#80. There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.
Chuck Norris
#81. Your past is your past. Why the fuck are you trying to drag it across the finish line with you? Cut that shit off. You'll be a hell of a lot lighter. Freer too.
S.E. Jakes
#82. Motivation starts the race, but self-discipline ultimately crosses the finish line.
Steve Pavlina
#83. Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
Catherine Martin
#84. It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.
Kim Basinger
#85. I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.
Sarah Dessen
#86. No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.
Julien Smith
#87. With motherhood and marriage there was no finish line, no hour or day or year when you got to say you were through. Life just went on and on, endless and formless, with no performance evaluation, no raises or feedback or two weeks' vacation.
Jennifer Weiner
#88. Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead
Roger Bannister
#89. We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.
Frank Sonnenberg
#90. There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.
Marc Benioff
#91. There is a finish line out there with your name on it. Do not stop until you plow though it!
Jerry Gladstone
#92. 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
#93. In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one.
Lance Armstrong
#94. For every finish-line tape a runner breaks
complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras
there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.
Grete Waitz
#95. You wouldn't train for a marathon & then give up a mile before the finish line. Same goes with your life & dreams.
Dawn Gluskin
#96. A little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.
David Levithan
#97. Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
Stephen Malkmus
#98. 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
#99. I have been running so sweaty my whole life
Urgent for a finish line
And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
Of being forever incomplete
Alanis Morissette
#100. There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.
Brandon Boyd
