Edward H. Harriman Quotes

It is much easier to start something than to finish it.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Service of any type requires preparation.

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

I feel that I have not got my due in films. However, I did a lot of good work on television and that's why I never got typecast.

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.