Finish Line Quotes

• 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

  Race, Lines, Matter

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• Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.

  Rihanna

  Eye, Lines, Turmoil

  Rihanna @rihanna, twitter.com. June 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Sports, Regret, Cancer

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• If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  Playboy Magazine Interview, July 1994.

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• A goal is a dream with a finish line.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

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• Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, Cheer, Team

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.

  Steven Pressfield

  Lines, Resistance

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• For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

  Christopher Reeve

  Lines, Impossible, Said

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  There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Goal, Lines

  Chuck Norris, Joe Hyams (1989). “The secret of inner strength: my story”, Diamond Books

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• 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

  Running, Bad Day, Wind

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• I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Lines, Realizing, Starting

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• Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

  John Bingham

  Past, Voice, Giving

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• The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)

  Paula Abdul

  Views, Mountain, Lines

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• Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.

  Howard Schultz

  Lines, Empty, Ifs

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Running, People

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• To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Trying, Lines

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• Here is the start, there is the finish line. Between that, you have to run.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Lines

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• Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there is another challenge. While you are alive, be alive. If you miss what you once did, do it again. Don't live in yellow photos... Continue although everyone expects you to give up. Don't let oxide the iron that is inside you. Do that instead of pity, and they will respect you. When because of years you cannot run, jog. When you cannot jog, walk. When you cannot walk, use a cane. But never stop!

  Mother Teresa

  Running, Giving Up, Years

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• Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

  Bear Grylls

  Giving Up, Dawn, Lines

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• When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever

  Dick Beardsley

  Forever, Lines, Changing Your Life

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• 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

  Distance, Knowing, Lines

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• Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Running, Pace, Lines

  Meb Keflezighi, Dick Patrick, Joan Benoit Samuelson (2010). “Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream”, p.5, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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

  Writing, Thoughtful, Winning

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• Life is the only race you'll run where you don't know where the finish line is.

  Steve Farrar

  Running, Race, Lines

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• 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

  Horse, Who I Am, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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