Welcome to our collection of finished quotes, where inspiration meets completion. Throughout history, individuals from various walks of life have shared profound insights, encapsulating wisdom, wit, and the essence of human experience in succinct phrases. Whether drawn from literature, philosophy, or personal reflections, finished quotes offer nuggets of wisdom that resonate across generations.
In this curated selection, you’ll find a diverse array of finished quotes spanning a multitude of themes, from perseverance and success to love and introspection. These quotes serve as reminders of the power of determination, the beauty of accomplishment, and the importance of embracing the journey to completion. Whether you’re seeking motivation to reach your goals or simply seeking solace in the wisdom of others, you’re sure to find something that speaks to you.
I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year’s rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools. Marie Curie
The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job’s not finished. Steven Gerrard
We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way. Muhammadu Buhari
I wouldn’t change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don’t. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I’m still not the finished product. Granit Xhaka
My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage. Bill Goldberg
The journey of filmmaking is so amazing. You start off with great confidence, and develop insecurity at the time of release. When you are ready with the finished product, you are constantly wondering if you have been honest to the story you started out with, if you got what you wanted. One is too close to the project by then to be objective. Mani Ratnam
The only advice I would give young guys is to keep your ears and eyes open. Never see yourself as a finished product. Dirk Nowitzki
Be happy now. It’s a great Western disease that we’ll be happy in the future – when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now. Marshall Goldsmith
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. Ann Landers
My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward man’s understanding of his closest animal relatives, the great apes. But one conclusion is already clear: The gorilla is one of the most maligned animals in the world. Dian Fossey
I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‘You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.’ Kanye West
After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows. Eddie the Eagle
Nothing is definite, nothing is finished, nothing is determined. Howard Jacobson
One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama, I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements. There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal. Nick Saban
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
When you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s hard to know when you’re finished. Tom Smothers
I didn’t finish university, I barely finished high school. All I know is from the books I’ve read, and the plays that I’ve read. Jacob Elordi
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. Francis Drake
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished. Haruki Murakami
After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day. Nick Mohammed
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Edmund Burke
I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins. Claire Forlani
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. Friedrich Durrenmatt
My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent. Jennifer Ehle
I always need to get away from whatever it is I’ve just finished, to feel a distance from it. Cindy Sherman
I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished. Mary Oliver
I’m getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I’ve ever played in my life, in the most unique project. Robert Duvall
When I finished ‘True History of the Kelly Gang,’ I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me. Peter Carey
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. Marcus Aurelius
Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It’s like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration. A. R. Rahman
Most of my friends – when I was five, six, seven years old – their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren’t around as much. My dad finished at three o’clock, so he was just around more. J. K. Simmons
A painting that is well composed is half finished. Pierre Bonnard
I wasn’t aware that ‘House on Mango Street’ was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished. Sandra Cisneros
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, ‘Casino Royale’ dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired. Ian Fleming
Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. John Irving
I never finished the ‘Large Glass’ because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word ‘finish’ implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them. Marcel Duchamp
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished. Georgia O’Keeffe
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. Edward Steichen
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. Neil Gaiman
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began. Friedrich Nietzsche
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they’re still making the corpses dance. Sue Townsend
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. David Lloyd George
I remember that the day I finished ‘The Angels,’ part three of ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’, I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative. Milan Kundera
If you come into success too soon, you’ll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you’ll be happier with yourself in the end. Lucinda Williams
You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There’s no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you’re finished. It’s impossible to predict anything. Colin Quinn
I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn’t film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out. Steve Irwin
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the ‘Unfinished Symphony.’ Yoko Ono
It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I’d set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough. David Beckham
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me, a song is not finished. To me, there’s no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end. Wayne Shorter
Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can’t play this game forever. When I’m finished, maybe I’ll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome. Ed Reed
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall – that when the play is finished, it’s done – but now I realise it’s more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You’re part of a thing that’s living. Lee Hall
What does happen in ‘Gourmet,’ we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, ‘Taste!’ and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish. Ruth Reichl
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. Jean-Paul Sartre
The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia’s invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order. Ivan Krastev
The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn’t have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it’s up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more. Roman Coppola
What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. Emil Zatopek
Mubarak’s regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed. Naguib Sawiris
You can’t start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting. Steven Spielberg
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon
Nature is never finished. Robert Smithson
It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for ‘My Shot.’ Black Thought
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did. Jeff Foxworthy
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting’s finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns… your thought process goes on. Georg Baselitz
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I’ve stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process – the characters, the costumes – rather than worrying about the finished product. Michelle Dockery
The best script in the world doesn’t work perfectly when you actually act it out. That’s a law. That’s a given. So you have to play with everything. And the more fun you have with it, the better the finished product. Ricky Gervais
A lot of people don’t get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it’s important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. Frank Gehry
So they didn’t let anybody else off. I can’t live like this, I’m finished. Auschwitz was easy. Witold Pilecki
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself. John Berger
When I went to Kabul – weeks after I finished ‘The Kite Runner’ – I met a lot of people from all walks of life: men, women, children, people from ministries, hotel doormen, shopkeepers. And I learned from them what daily life was like when the rockets were flying overhead. Khaled Hosseini
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. Francoise Sagan
I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part of history.’ Samuel L. Jackson
Science is not finished until it is communicated. Mark Walport
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. Benjamin Franklin
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. Andre Maurois
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished. Paul Keating
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon
There is no more Palestine. Finished. Moshe Dayan
I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it. Max Azria
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’ Maya Angelou
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders. Ben Stein
It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody’s face when you’re finished and packing, it’s the best smile in the world; and there’s nobody hurt, and the well’s under control. Red Adair
Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll go write four books about it. Frank Lloyd Wright
I was chef to the French Presidents between ’56 and ’59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn’t even see them. Jacques Pepin
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back. Virginia Woolf
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. Jesse Jackson
I am a retired United States Marine Corporal and I started out in 2nd Battalion Night Marines on my deployment and I finished my career in the Marine Corps at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as a patient. Kyle Carpenter
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less. Taylor Swift
I finished ‘Beautiful Creature,’ and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren’t intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren’t hard enough. Juliana Hatfield
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You’re grateful for these different chances. Ernest Hemingway
I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn’t know I had, and sometimes it’s very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there’s nothing at all to do about it now. Eve Arnold
Missing You’ almost didn’t get on the No Brakes’ album, because the record company said, ‘The album’s finished. We don’t need any more songs.’ John Waite
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech – antonomastice – the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness. Jan Hus
Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change. Gordon W. Allport
