Finish Strong: The Ultimate Collection of Inspirational Quotes to Empower Your Journey

"We are what we believe we are."

- C.S. Lewis

"You have three options. Quit, mail it in, or finish strong. What’s it going to be?"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence is 'I'll be fine if they don't.'"

- Christina Grimmie

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"What kind of competitor sees the finish line and slows down…always finish strong!"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"What people remember is the beginning and the end…how we start, and how we finish…therefore start fast and FINISH STRONG."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"The perfect ending to any day, race, task or project is to FINISH STRONG"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Every task, goal, race and year comes to an end…therefore, make it a habit to FINISH STRONG."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Greatness will not accept anything less than a strong finish."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"The things you need to do to finish the year strong are the exact same things you should have been doing all year long. The difference now is that…time is no longer an ally, options are no longer unlimited, and the time has come for you to put up or shut up."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Destiny demands that you dig deep and finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Whatever it takes to finish strong, finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Your competition is hoping you’ll roll over, throw in the towel and give up. Whatever it takes, always finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finish Strong — Glory Awaits You at The Finish Line."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finishing strong is a choice. So is quitting, mailing it in and making excuses."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"The world is filled with people who are good starters. What we need are more good finishers."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"To be the best, you have to beat the best…and the best always finish strong!"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Many will start fast, few will finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finish Strong. Start fast, roll hard, and stop for nothing until you reach the goal…even if that means being exhausted and running on fumes once you cross the finish line."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"What people remember is the beginning and the end, the opening and the close, the fast start and the strong finish!"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Here’s the plan…Start fast, stay focused, finish strong!"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"It’s not how you start but how you finish that matters."

- Michael Phelps

"No matter the goal, begin knowing that you are going to finish strong"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finishing strong is the only respectable way to finish."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Winners are not those who never fail but those who never quit."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"It's not over until you win."

- Les Brown

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"Never waste the opportunity to finish strong. Give them a performance that they will talk about forever."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finish Strong. Not because it is easy but because it is hard."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"You can’t possibly expect to win without the discipline of finishing strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Finishing strong is a powerful demonstration of commitment, character, integrity, and heart."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"The future belongs to the scrappy ones…the ones who finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"You can’t go back and change a slow start, but you can close the gap by putting your head down, working your ass off…and always finishing strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

- Vince Lombardi

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak."

- Albert Einstein

"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You don’t get paid for starting…you only get paid for finishing."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"You didn’t come this far to only come this far. Dig deep, finish strong and make yourself proud."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."

- Tony Robbins

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one’s character, ability and will. That’s why you must always finish strong!"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."

- Denis Waitley

"One way or the other you’re going to finish…so, why not finish strong and make yourself immensely proud of your performance rather than embarrassed by your lack of it"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"You don’t need new goals to finish the year strong…you need commitment and relentless execution to your existing ones."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Dorothea Brande

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Don't limit your challenges. Challenge your limits."

- Jerry Dunn

"Great things come from three things…commitment, hard work and strong finishes…not from excuses."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finishing Strong is an everyday occurrence as there will never be a race, goal, day, quarter or year that does not come to an end. This means finishing strong is not an act…it’s a habit."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"The last step is the most important one. You can't cross the finish line until you take it."

- John Wooden

"It’s not the first, but the last step in the race…the last shot in the basket, the last volley in tennis, the last swing of the bat that makes the lasting difference…for that is where the game is won and that is why you must always finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Coded into your genes is an extraordinary will, an indomitable spirit, a relentless finish strong ethos that is incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"You will be judged by your results and how well you bring things to an end…therefore always FINISH STRONG."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"If you’re brave enough to start, you’re strong enough to finish"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Be the hero of your own story. Show the world the quality of your character, the strength of your resolve and the size of your heart by finishing strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"FINISH STRONG…it’s the exact same mentality of a distance runner sprinting to the tape, a boxer looking for a knockout, and a salesperson grinding out the last quarter to exceed their annual quota."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finish Strong. It’s the only respectable way to finish."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

- Peter T. McIntyre

"Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control."

- Richard Kline

"Believe in yourself and all that you are."

- Christian D. Larson

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

"You can’t finish what you don’t start, and you should never start what you’re not committed to finish."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work hard around it."

- Michael Jordan

"Finish Strong. Two words. One powerful philosophy!"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Start Fast. Finish Strong. Repeat."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"To be Successful is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!"

- Dada Vaswani

"Finishing Strong demands that you get dirty, sweaty, and stinky."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"The last mile is always the hardest."

- Joseph Chamberlain

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep moving, and determination to finish."

- Eddie Harris, Jr.

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"Courage is not absent of fear. Courage is your willingness to push through fear in spite of feeling it. Be brave because you can."

- Wesam Fawzi

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

"I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that don’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin."

- Gregory S. Williams

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you."

- Rihanna

"A ferocious concentration and fanatical execution is what you need to finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Finish Strong. It’s a motto, a mantra, a massive call to action"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"You’re off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way."

- Dr. Seuss

"You can do anything you set your mind to."

- Eminem

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."

- John Bingham

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to keep moving forward."

- Carrie Green

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying in it."

- Ed Cole

"Victory loves those who persevere."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

- Philippians 3:14 (Bible verse)

"Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."

- Luke 9:62

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Victory favors the prepared mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Inch by inch, life is a cinch."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"It's gonna be hard, but hard is good."

- Clint Eastwood

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react that matters."

- Epictetus

"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Working hard is important, but there is something that even more: believing in yourself."

- Harry Potter

"Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce."

- Vivian Komori

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Life’s a climb, but the view is great."

- Hannah Montana

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"There is no finish line, only horizons."

- Hebrews 12:1

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Life’s a little bit messy. We all make mistakes."

- Judy Hopps

"There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one."

- Chuck Norris

"It's not about who starts the race, it's about who finishes it strong."

- Anonymous

"Today is a good day to finish what you started."

- Anonymous

"The race isn't always to the swift, but to those who keep running."

- Anonymous

"No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn’t the start that matters. It’s the finish line."

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

"Many will start fast; few will finish strong."

"Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, and you will get to the finish line."

"Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line but how strong they've grown 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."

"Once you’ve committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line."

"You can’t give up until the finish line, that’s something I’ve learned."

"People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line."

"The finish line isn't the end, it's the beginning of what's next."

- Anonymous

"Conquer your fears, one fear at a time, and eventually, you will reach the finish line."

"You're one step closer than you were yesterday."

- Anonymous

"Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line."

"There are times when you run a marathon, and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going."

"Hustle until your doubters are speechless."

- Anonymous

"You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK."

"Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action."

"The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don’t like the end-zone dance. I think that’s unfortunate. That feeling – the finish line, the last couple of meters – is what motivates me."

"It is not because of setbacks that most entrepreneurs do not reach the finishing line, but because of a lack of willpower and motivation."

"Seeing the finish line and having the strength to reach it. It’s what we do."

"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."

"Resistance is greatest just before the finish line."

"Runners just do it – they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first."

- Unknown

"Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you."

"When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever."

"The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line."

"Don’t forget to cheer for yourself when you reach the finish line."

"Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most?"

"What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour."

"To get to the finish line, you’ll have to try lots of different paths."

"Nice guys do not finish last."

"The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts."

"There is no finish line to leadership."

"If you don’t know that, then you don’t know where the finish line is."

"In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether."

"The race for Quality has no finish line – so technically, it’s more like a death march."

"Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone."

"Don’t be afraid to walk backwards."

"Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line."

"Glory awaits you at the finish line."

"A goal is a dream with a finish line."

"It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter."

"You may not be there yet, but you are closer than you were yesterday."

"You did it! Now go celebrate!"

"Keep your eyes on the prize."

"The final steps are where the magic happens."

"The end is just the beginning of something new."

"The final steps are just as important as the first."

"Every step you take is a step closer to your goal."

"Finish strong and let your success speak for itself."

"Embrace the journey, especially the final steps."

"The moment you're ready to quit is usually the moment right before a miracle happens."

"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."

"Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them."

- Anonymous

"Determination is the key to success."

"Determination today leads to success tomorrow."

"Stay strong. Make them wonder how you’re still smiling."

"Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve."

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."

- Unknown

"Finish with grace and confidence."

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you."

"Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud."

"Cross the finish line with pride."

"Stand tall as you complete your journey."

"Celebrate every step you take towards your goal."

"Walk confidently in the direction of your dreams."