Inspirational Quotes for Ending a Programme: A Powerful Collection to Close with Impact

"Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don’t really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren’t really an ending; some things are never-ending."

- C. JoyBell C.

"An end is only a beginning in disguise."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over."

- Paulo Coelho

"There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over–and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out."

- Ellen Goodman

"Every ending is a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time."

- Mitch Albom

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Vince Lombardi

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success – on the far side of failure."

- Thomas J. Watson

"Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Sun Tzu

"Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed."

- Mia Hamm

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Words may inspire but action creates change."

- Simon Sinek

"100 percent of the shots you don’t take, don’t go in."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be someone; get action."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."

- Robert Frost

"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."

- Benjamin Mays

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."

- Lao Tzu

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character."

- Henry Rollins

"The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies."

- Vera Nazarian

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning."

- Robin Hobb

"Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"There is always more after the ending. Always the next morning, and the next. Always changes, losses and gains. Always one step after the other. Until the one true ending that none of us can escape. But even that ending is only a small one, larges as it looms for us. There is still the next morning for everyone else. For the vast majority of the rest of the universe that ending might as well not ever have happened. Every ending is an arbitrary one. Everything ending is from another angle, not really an ending."

- Ann Leckie

"The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."

- Jim Henson

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."

- Pauline Kael

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

- Orson Welles

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

- Julie Andrews

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."

- Frank Herbert

"And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end."

- Jen Calonita

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."

- John Heywood

"It’s a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we’re living through is yet another moment, in yet another day."

- Steve Yarbrough

"Perfect is the enemy of done."

- Catherine Carrigan

"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you."

- Leon Brown

"Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation."

- Coretta Scott King

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

- R. A. Heinlein

"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."

- Thomas Edison

"Either run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

- William Arthur Ward

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion."

- Tony Hsieh

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."

- Ovid

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Nothing in life is to be feared: it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great."

- Orison Swett Marden

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"When things go wrong, don’t go with them."

- Elvis Presley

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

"It isn’t what we say or think that denies us, but what we do."

- Jane Austen

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilites."

- J.K. Rowling

"Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated."

- Osho

"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."

- Albert Einstein

"Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games."

- Babe Ruth

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

- Bill Gates

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

- Warren Buffett

"Some entrepreneurs think how can I make a lot of money? But a better way is to think how can I make people’s lives a lot better? If you get it right, the money will come."

- Richard Branson

"Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

"When you find an idea that you can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"When I’m old and dying. I plan to look back on my life and say ‘Wow, an adventure’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’"

- Tom Preston-Werner

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."

- Josephine Hart

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal."

- Cornelius Fichtner

"Do not seek praise, seek criticism."

- Paul Arden

"Don’t find fault. Find a remedy."

- Henry Ford

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Creativity is more than just being different… Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."

- Charles Mingus

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"He who only does what he can will always remain what he is."

- Henry Ford

"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."

- Nolan Bushnell

"Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Make it simple, but significant."

- Don Draper

"The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place."

- Orison Swett Marden

"You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done."

- Russell Simmons

"If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you."

- Zig Ziglar

"One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure."

- Robert Townsend

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."

- Bob Marley

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

- Seneca

"Time is what we want most but what we use worst."

- William Penn

"Don’t build links. Build relationships."

- Rand Fishkin

"Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers."

- Seth Godin

"If you think you are too small to make an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."

- Ekaterina Walter

"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."

- Peter Drucker

"When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked."

- Elon Musk

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

- Marie Curie

"Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy."

- O.B. Smith

"Guard your time fiercely. Be generous with it, but be intentional about it."

- David Duchemin

"I may regret the way we ended, but I will never regret what we had."

- Drake

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

- Albert Einstein

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

- Winston Churchill

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

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

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and I must be prepared to make my own luck"

"Most people could accomplish extraordinary things if they had the confidence or took risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the television and treat life as if it goes on forever."

"Today we do what others won't. Tomorrow we do what other's cant."