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Quotes About Completion

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
~ Neil Gaiman
You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.
~ Phil Jackson
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
I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!
~ Eric Thomas
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
~ Susan Mitchell
That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
~ Alain Prost
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
~ William Feather
There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.
~ Alexandre Dumas
O grande ville! c' est dans ton sein palpitant que j'ai trouve ce que je cherchais; mineur patient, j'ai remue tes entrailles pour en faire sortir le mal; maintenant, mon oeuvre est accomplie, ma mission est terminee; maintenant tu ne peux plus m'ofrir ni joies ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris,! adieu!
~ Alexandre Dumas
The dead are required to finish two tasks before all is over with them: one is to guide back to the path someone you left behind who is lost, because of your folly; the other is to host a ceremony so that you and others you have hurt may face eternity reconciled and complete.
~ Alice Walker
If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.
~ Alison Weir
Oh, and Cammie, At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. I always finish what I start.
~ Ally Carter
Ningún camino digno de recorrer es fácil —repuso el padre Yarvi—. Cada uno de vosotros tiene puntos fuertes de los que el otro carece, puntos débiles que el otro compensa. Es algo hermoso, y muy excepcional, encontrar a alguien que… —Miró con gravedad las ramas que se movían sobre ellos, como si pensara en algo muy distante y doloroso—. Que te complete.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.
~ Joe Coomer
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
~ Joe Girard
For me, a life long bookworm, there was nothing quite so awful as the though of dying fifty pages from the end of a good novel.
~ Joe Hill
I have no use for before and after pictures. I can't remember starting, and I am never done.
~ Joey Comeau
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it… but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I died right now, my life would be complete.
~ Tony Stewart
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
~ Neil Gaiman
It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
~ Yann Martel
If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.
~ Frederick Lenz