Completion Quotes

• Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

  Susan Collins

  Success, Errands, Able

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

  Nik Halik

  Successful, Excellence, Tasks

  FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Oct 02, 2014

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• You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

  John Calvin

  Order, Joy, Suffering

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• A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

  Benjamin Watson

  Heart, Excellent Work, Effort

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• Long is the road from conception to completion.

  Moliere

  Long, Conception

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• Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Perfect Days, Giving, Miracle

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Secret Door to Success”, p.27, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

  Soichiro Honda

  Real, Lying, Skills

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thank You

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• The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Artist, New Work, Littles

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.187

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• There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Decision, Finals, Outcomes

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• It is a long road from conception to completion.

  Moliere

  Long, Persevere, Conception

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• Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

  Wang Yangming

  Practice, Knowing

  Yangming Wang (1916). “The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming”

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• The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

  Terry Bradshaw

  Commitment, Self, Winner

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• In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Loss, Energy

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• Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

  Whitley Strieber

  Prayer, Names, World

  "More Giants of the Genre". Book by Michael McCarty, 2004.

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• Reality is the completion of experience.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Reality

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser, p. 221, 1949.

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• Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Love Is, Self, Outreach

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• 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

  Grants, Offers, Asks

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• Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Desire, Enlightenment, Enlightened

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.31, New World Library

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• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Progress, Decline

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.120

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• Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• 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

  Happiness, Taken, Buddhism

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• 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

  Education, Trying, Might

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Writing, Process

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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