“Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.”
“It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.”
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”
“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”