Quotes 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

“Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you ... for beginners are many, but finishers few.”

— Thomas S. Monson

“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

“I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it.”

— Billy Joe Saunders

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.”

— John Townsend

“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

“I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.”

— Alan Kay

“Beginners are many; finishers are few.”

— Stephen Covey

“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

“I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."”

— Robert Cheeke