“Successful people do two things that many other people don’t: They initiate action, and they finish what they start.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
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John C. Maxwell145
American author, speaker and pastor 1947Related quotes
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Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
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RuPaul (1960) Actriz de Televisa, dueña y señora de los ejidos cacaoahuateros
Interview with David Shankbone (2007)
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”
Jennifer McMahon (1968) American writer
Source: The Winter People
“Don’t start anything you can’t finish.”
Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher (1988)
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993), "April 13"
Earlier variant: People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. And those who have learned to have a realistic, nonegotistical belief in themselves, who possess a deep and sound self-confidence, are assets to mankind, too, for they transmit their dynamic quality to those lacking it.
You Can If You Think You Can (1987), p. 84
Ian Brown (1963) English musician and singer of The Stone Roses
Interview by Lindsay Baker, "The Unsinkable Ian Brown" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2002/feb/02/shopping.popandrock?INTCMP=SRCH, The Guardian, 2 February 2002, retrieved 2011-08-13
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi