In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.
The race for excellence has no finish line.
Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.
Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.
No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.
It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.
Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.
Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.
The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.
As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.
You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.
In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.
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