There is no good in anything until it is finished.
Interpretation
Completion is essential for the value of any endeavor.
This quote by Genghis Khan emphasizes the importance of finishing tasks or projects. It suggests that the true value and impact of any action can only be realized upon its completion, highlighting the idea that unfinished things hold little worth or significance in comparison to those that are fully realized.
In practice
This quote is perfect for motivating a team that is struggling to complete a project.
Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.
It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you
I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
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