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.
Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
If you meditate, meditation is so beautiful, who bothers about the result? And if you bother about the result, meditation is not possible. This result oriented mind is the only barrier, the only block. There are not many blocks, the only block is that of the result oriented mind: never here-now, always somewhere else thinking of the result; while making love, thinking about the result.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
The best way out is always through.
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