Top 100 Quotes About The 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. I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.
Asafa Powell
#3. The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.
Stirling Moss
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.
Joe Biden
#7. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
Ferdinand Porsche
#8. 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.
#9. We don't stop, not even when we reach the finish line. It's a journey for life, Neve.
Sarra Manning
#10. For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line
Bill Ford
#11. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
Siri Hustvedt
#12. 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
#13. Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
Rihanna
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#24. There will always be someone trying to beat you first in line, and also the finish line.
Anthony Liccione
#25. The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.
William Zinsser
#26. 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
#27. A runner can never see the finish line in the middle of a marathon,
Henry Cloud
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. I knew not everyone would be intact at the finish line.
J.J. McAvoy
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.
Alice McCall
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#39. 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
#40. The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner.
Susan Wingate
#41. 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
#42. We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
Joe Biden
#43. Here is the start, there is the finish line. Between that, you have to run.
Jeff Galloway
#44. You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.
Gwen Jorgensen
#45. Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.
Dan Waldschmidt
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#49. Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.
John C. Maxwell
#50. If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line
Carrie Jones
#51. 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
#52. One word at a time, makes a novel at the finish line."
- Vik Tory Arch
Vik Tory Arch
#53. Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.
Howard Schultz
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Motivation starts the race, but self-discipline ultimately crosses the finish line.
Steve Pavlina
#65. Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
Catherine Martin
#66. It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.
Kim Basinger
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one.
Lance Armstrong
#72. You wouldn't train for a marathon & then give up a mile before the finish line. Same goes with your life & dreams.
Dawn Gluskin
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.
Akiane Kramarik
#76. Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five ...
Richard Russo
#77. When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever
Dick Beardsley
#78. I'm a doer.
I do.
So. When I say I'm going to do something, I do it. When I say I'm going to do something, I really do it. I throw myself into it and I do. I do my ass off. I do right up to the finish line. No matter what.
No.
Matter.
What.
Shonda Rhimes
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!
T.F. Hodge
#82. It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.
Marcel Hirscher
#83. Don't let anyone trip you up before the finish line!
Carol Gambill
#84. 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
#85. AMELIA: Thank you to everyone for keeping up with me while I run for the finish line.
Amelia Hutchins
#86. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
Steve Jobs
#87. I don't mind a chase, baby. Whether it's a sprint or a marathon makes no difference to me. I'll reach the finish line eventually. I don't know what you're running from, but I don't give up easy. I'll be seeing you soon.
Aidan Willows
#88. Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#89. 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
#90. I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.
Ann Curry
#91. Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.
Joe Torre
#92. Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.
Thomas King
#93. The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line.
Erin McCarthy
#94. Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
Jerry Coleman
#95. Writing isn't about racing to the finish line; it's about finding joy in each step of the process. If a writer focuses on the journey, the destination will take care of itself.
Christopher Meyerhoeffer
#96. WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!
Darynda Jones
#97. 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
#98. Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#100. To be honest, today's runners may as well go back to being nude as them Lycra pants they wear don't really hide much, do they? It's plain to see that if Usain Bolt went back to the old ways of running in the nude he would have an advantage getting over the finish line before anyone else. It
Karl Pilkington
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