Quotes About Finishers

#1. I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."

Robert Cheeke

#2. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

Jamie Smith

#3. For years and years and years ... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

Michael Lesy

#4. I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve.

Zoe Koplowitz

#5. The point is, what separates finishers from quitters in any aspect of life is that finishers know how to silence the mind when it kicks up those demons of doubt.

John Joseph

#6. I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it.

Billy Joe Saunders

#7. I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

Arthur Godfrey

#8. Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#9. I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Alan Kay

#10. Beginners are many; finishers are few.

Stephen Covey

#11. I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#12. I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.

John Townsend

#13. Sales winners educate with new ideas and perspectives almost three times more often than second-place finishers. Of 42 factors studied, the greatest difference between winners and second-place finishers was their propensity to educate.

Mike Schultz

#14. Great leaders are great finishers.

Brad Lomenick

#15. 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

#16. Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you ... for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Thomas S. Monson

#17. If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

Bill Bryson

#18. If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#19. There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Brennan Manning

#20. At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

R.C. Sproul

#21. Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm

Rutger Hauer

#22. Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

Mike Bouchard

#23. There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.

Daniel Johns

#24. I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.

Dick Cheney

#25. The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Voltaire

#26. If you want to be great, see greatness in others and appreciate it with your whole heart.

Debasish Mridha

#27. O Lord, grant me the grace of endurance, in the race of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

Walter Mosley

#29. When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

Mike Tyson

#30. Death by family silver, I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind.

Alan Bradley

#31. Irrationality is part of everyday rationale

Elif Shafak

#32. Life is too short to enjoy all the beauties of life.

Debasish Mridha