Quotes & Sayings About Finishers

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

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. — Mike Tyson

The point is, what separates finishers from quitters in any aspect of life is that finishers know how to silence the mind when it kicks up those demons of doubt. — John Joseph

I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers. — John Townsend

There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead. — Jamie Smith

It has been said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. We are constantly making small decisions. The outcome determines the success or failure of our lives. That is why it is worthwhile to look ahead, to set a course, and at least be partly ready when the moment of decision comes. True finishers have the capacity to visualize their objective. — Thomas S. Monson

Great leaders are great finishers. — Brad Lomenick

For years and years and years ... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain. — Michael Lesy

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one ... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. — Henry David Thoreau

Oh, come on, Ronan said. For starters, it was Henrietta. And for finishers, it was Henrietta. No one got burgled, and if they did, they didn't get beaten up. And if anyone was going to get beaten up, it wouldn't be the Lynch brothers. There was very little worse than Ronan in Henrietta, and what worse there was was too busy racing around in a little white Mitsubishi to burgle the remaining Lynches. — Maggie Stiefvater

Sales winners educate with new ideas and perspectives almost three times more often than second-place finishers. Of 42 factors studied, the greatest difference between winners and second-place finishers was their propensity to educate. — Mike Schultz

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher. — Alan Kay

I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win." — Robert Cheeke

I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Beginners are many; finishers are few. — Stephen Covey

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline. — Arthur Godfrey

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you ... for beginners are many, but finishers few. — Thomas S. Monson

I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it. — Billy Joe Saunders

I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve. — Zoe Koplowitz