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Quotes About Completion

Exercise feels best after it is finished.
~ Toni Sorenson
I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
~ Socrates
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
Its so funny whenever things come full circle.
~ Swoosie Kurtz
Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.
~ Ivor Cutler
To have high self esteem one must perform or complete a task assigned to him with responsibility. Responsibility makes one accountable for actions and attitude. Responsibility makes one to know actually what one is expected to do and how to finish it with a logical conclusion.
~ Unknown
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
~ Richard Bach
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
~ Marilyn Monroe
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.
~ Marilynne Robinson
For it's only when you reach your destination that you discover the road doesn't end here after all.
~ Marina Lewycka
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley
The ones that win are the ones that ship.
~ Unknown
Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.
~ Michael Phelps
I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.
~ Lawrence Welk
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
~ Laozi
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
~ George Sand
Every journey has an end.
~ Seneca the Younger
A mark.... is left when you complete your internal quest when you leave........
~ Anonymous
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done...
~ Anonymous
Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
~ Leslie Nielsen