Unfinished Business Quotes

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

  Wally Amos

  Unfinished

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• . . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

  Sara Zarr

  Life, Heart, Names

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• Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ghost, Unfinished, Knows

  "The Satanic Verses". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 1988.

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• If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Way, Quitting, Left Behind

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivation, Procrastination, Giving

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 01, 2011

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• Life should be an unfinished business.

  Colin Fletcher

  Should, Unfinished

  Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf

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• Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

  Anita Brookner

  New Ventures, Games, Balls

  Anita Brookner (1989). “Lewis Percy”

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• the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

  Sara Zarr

  Love Is, Color, Shapes

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.

  Caroline Myss

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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• When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Priorities, Unfinished, Tolerate

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• Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

  Alice Hoffman

  Love You, Men, Forever

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.132, Penguin Group

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• I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Regret, Years, Faithful

  "The Value of Guardrails". Interview with Paula Hendricks, www.reviveourhearts.com. May 17, 2013.

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• The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, People, President

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• If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Lines, Steps

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• I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Girl, Badass

  "The Hillary Doctrine". Interview with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.

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• Liberty is always unfinished business

  Havelock Ellis

  Liberty, Unfinished

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• As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

  William Safire

  Country, Long, Hungry

  "If There's One Hungry American". www.nytimes.com. December 18, 1983.

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• and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

  Sara Zarr

  Teacher, Smart, Heart

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• Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, People, Empowering

  "The New 'Comeback' Clinton: From Rival to U.S. Cabinet". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue Magazine, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2009.

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• A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

  Henry Cloud

  Grief, Loss, Causes

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2006). “God Will Make a Way: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I know from my own life that you can’t move forward unless you reach out and deal honestly with the past. The truth is that when it comes to race and class, Boston has a lot of unfinished business. We must not be afraid to talk about it.

  Marty Walsh

  Moving, Past, Boston

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