Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
J. R. R. Tolkien
Age: 81 †
Born: 1892
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: September 2
Author
Essayist
Historian
Illustrator
Linguist
Literary Critic
Military Officer
Poet
Teacher
Translator
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John R. R. Tolkien
J-R-R Tolkien
Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Jobs
Longest
Inspirational
Procrastination
Ends
Finish
Work
Finished
Never
Beginning
Life
Motivational
Started
Takes
More quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien
That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo. So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.
J. R. R. Tolkien
All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
J. R. R. Tolkien
It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
J. R. R. Tolkien
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.
J. R. R. Tolkien
