Finish Line Quotes - Page 3

• The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivation, Sight, Giving

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• I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

  David Levithan

  Running, Winning, Past

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.113, Egmont UK

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• I'm proud of what I have accomplished so far in my career, but the finish line is nowhere in sight. Still, it's fun to look back before we move forward.

  Jeff Hardy

  Fun, Moving, Sight

  Source: www.si.com

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• 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

  Moving, People, Choices

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• Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

  Garry Shandling

  Positive, Nice, Guy

  "What I've Learned: Garry Shandling". www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Running, Forever

  Song: Incomplete, Album: Flavors Of Entanglement, 2008

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• And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

  Tim Wise

  Struggle, Vacation, Justice

  Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.270, Soft Skull Press

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• I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times.

  Jonny Gomes

  Memories, Home, Loss

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• In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their event. The option to drop out of a race that is going badly does not exist for a climber halfway up a big route, and may entail more risk than pushing on. A team of volunteers will not be waiting with warm blankets and hot food at the next bivy ledge. When you reach the summit, having overcome the challenges that inspired you for months or years, you are not at the finish line. The race is not over. You can't relax and let your guard down like a normal athlete.

  Steve House

  Sports, Team, Struggle

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Race, Lines

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• To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Fiction, Lines

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• I admire many women that have come before me, heavy influencers such as Oprah, such as Beyoncé, and I'm witnessing the fruit of their work and experiencing their legacy now and they're not even close to the finish line.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Legacy, Lines, Fruit

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• 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

  Body, Lines, Trends

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  People, Understanding, Lines

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• When you're doing physical comedy, everybody's involved, not just the actors. Everybody's behind the scenes following them, and we've got Jillian the cinematographer running after them, then we've got three guys behind her who are cable-wranglers running with her so she doesn't trip on it. Every day was a mad-dash to the finish line. Every day was so stressful. Every day was so fun.

  J. Robert Spencer

  Running, Fun, Mad

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time when she fell ill. That happened during my Freshman year, and unfortunately she never saw me compete in the Olympics. But she really wanted me to finish college, because she never finished Junior High.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Mother, College, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Home, Race

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.289, Macmillan

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• 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

  Team, Color, Play

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

  Ann Curry

  Sorry, Men, Trying

  "For TV Networks, Stiff Competition To Be 'Top Of The Morning'", www.wfdd.org. April 23, 2013.

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• Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Powerful, Keys, Race

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• 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

  Creativity, Wings, Goal

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• 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.

  Long, Three, Lines

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• You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.

  Mike Weir

  Fun, Golf, Worry

  Sky Sports Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• 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

  Running, Lines, Might

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